Staff

İpek Su Yılmaz Kahraman
Clinical Psychologist
Istanbul

İpek Su Yılmaz completed her psychology degree at Kadir Has University in 2020. During her undergraduate education, she studied at Masaryk University in Czechia for a period as part of the exchange program. She took part in various organizations and positions as a volunteer of Hope Foundation for Children with Cancer. She took part in the Pandemic Process Information Series as a volunteer of the Child-Adolescent Unit of the Turkish Psychological Association.

After her graduation, she participated in Hakan Kızıltan's Psychodynamic Theory Seminar Series for one year. In 2021, she started the Child-Adolescent Focused Clinical Psychology Master's Program at Işık University. Her thesis topic is on the mediating role of the child's conscious awareness level in the relationship between the mother's illness anxiety and the child's illness anxiety. Within the scope of the program, she received training and supervision of Cognitive Behavioral Theory, Play Therapy, Denver II Developmental Screening Inventory, Ankara Developmental Screening Inventory, Metropolitan Readiness Test, Frostig Visual Perception Test, D2 Attention Test, Specific Learning Disability Assessment Battery, Benton Visual Retention Test. She completed the Moxo Attention Test Practitioner Certification Training. She completed her compulsory internship at Moodist Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital. She followed child and adolescent clients with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy under the supervision of Dr. Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychologist Z. Deniz Aktan, and Psychodynamic Play Therapy under the supervision of Psychologist Pelinsu Bulut Özer at Işık University Clinical Practice and Psychological Counseling Center. 

In 2022, she received Healthy Sexuality Educational Training for Adolescent Children from Gail Dines and Nilüfer Devecigil. She completed Experiential Play Theory 1st Level Training given by Nilüfer Devecigil and Experiential Play Theory 2nd Level Training given by Byron Norton and Nilüfer Devecigil. She completed the Psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 1st Level Training given by the Istanbul Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association. She is a member of Prof. Dr. Barış Korkmaz's working team and attends his outpatient clinics. She has completed the International Schema Therapy Association (ISST) approved Child and Adolescent Schema Therapy Training provided by Dr. Gökçen Güven and Dr. Deniz Aktan. She is continuing her supervision work for the ISST accreditation process. 

Being a member of Turkish Psychologists Association, she currently works with children, adolescents and their families.  

E-mail: ipeksu.yilmaz@cinardanisman.com