Tuğba Yıldırım graduated from Istanbul University with a degree in Psychology. She completed her MSc in Clinical Psychology at Istanbul Medipol University with a thesis titled “Assessing Separation Anxiety in Emerging Adulthood in the Context of Object Relations and Emotion Regulation through the Rorschach Test.”

At Navia Psikoloji, she provides psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy to adults and adolescents. She also serves as a test specialist, administering the Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to adults. In addition, she organizes individual and group programs, workshops, and film analyses within the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis.

Her clinical interests include adult separation anxiety, relational dynamics, emotion-regulation processes, traumatic experiences, grief and bereavement, and psychological aspects of medical illness.

She has completed adult-focused training in the Rorschach and TAT at the Rorschach and Projective Tests Association (Turkey). She also completed the Basic Existential Analysis Training and Advanced Case Analysis in Existential and Psychoanalytic Approaches at the Existential Academy, as well as training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP).

From 2017 to 2022, she worked as a psychologist in the public sector, conducting individual and group interventions with justice-involved adults, adolescents, and children. During this period, she served as a trainer and project lead in academic and support initiatives with various NGOs and universities in Turkey, as well as international organizations.

She continues long-term supervision within psychoanalytic and psychodynamic frameworks and is engaged in personal analysis with an analyst-in-formation at the Istanbul Psychoanalytic Association. She is a member of the Turkish Psychological Association (Istanbul Branch) and volunteers in its Trauma, Disaster and Crisis Unit.