Professional psychotherapy for adults and adolescents

My approach is caring and sensitive to your individual needs.

Help with a variety of concerns is available, including:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Relationships
• Self Esteem
• Trauma
• Wellbeing & performance
• Expatriate & relocation issues

Weekend and after hours appointments are available.

Aydın Karaçanta BSc (Biochemistry), BPsych (Hons), MClinPsych, PhD (Macquarie)

Aydın completed a Bachelor of Psychology (honours) degree, a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He also graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Calgary in Canada.

Aydın has 6 years of experience in psychotherapy with adults and adolescents. In 2000, he worked in a health education project at the Ministry of Health in Sydney that aimed suicide prevention among young people and focused on romantic relationships. During the same year he worked as a counselor at a youth centre.

Aydın did his internship as a cilinical psychologist in four centres. The first of these was The Rod Power Psychology Clinic at Macquarie University. Next, he conducted individual and group therapy for people with anxiety problems at Bankstown Hospital Anxiety Disorders Clinic. His third internship was at the child and family mental health unit of Waverley Community Health Centre. Finally, he completed his internship at Boğaziçi University Centre for Psychological Research and Services (BÜPAM) and qualified as a registered psychologist in NSW, Australia. He worked as a clinical psychologist at the Student Counseling Center at Bahçeşehir University between 2007 and 2009.

Aydın's PhD research was in the area of emotions and self-regulation, and involved investigating the effects of anger on persisting toward one's goals. He has also done research that looked at behavioural effects of empathy and guilt; and mental health and suicide among young people. He presented his research in conferences in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany. He worked as a teaching assistant at Macquarie University. The courses he taught were Emotion and Social Motivation, Research Methods in Social Psychology, and Statistics. He has been teaching part-time at the Psychology Department at Yeditepe University since 2009.

Aydın has received a number of academic awards, including the Australian Postgraduate Award, Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence, Macquarie University Honours Award, and the Golden Key Society Award.