Birsen Kahraman
Birsen Kahraman is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and author. She is also involved in psychotherapeutic training and professional policy. She studied psychology, journalism, and cultural studies at the University of Hamburg and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She received her doctorate in 2006 at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich with a dissertation on cultural and power sensitivity in the therapeutic relationship. Before setting up her own practice, she worked for various psychosocial care institutions such as the Rechts der Isar hospital clinic in Munich, the department of migrant psychological services at the Worker’s Welfare Association (AWO) in Munich, Refugio München, and the Eichstätt Catholic University. She continues to work at numerous state-accredited psychotherapy training institutions.
Kahraman specializes in the practice and teaching of anti-racist and context-sensitive psychotherapy, with an emphasis on (structural) discrimination and violence, transgenerational trauma, migration, and displacement. As an elected member of the German Chamber of Psychotherapists since 2017, she advocates for the identification and removal of barriers in patient care and for equal opportunities in access to psychotherapeutic education and professions.
Birsen Kahraman is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from November 2025 to January 2026.
Birsen Kahraman is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and author. She is also involved in psychotherapeutic training and professional policy. She studied psychology, journalism, and cultural studies at the University of Hamburg and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She received her doctorate in 2006 at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich with a dissertation on cultural and power sensitivity in the therapeutic relationship. Before setting up her own practice, she worked for various psychosocial care institutions such as the Rechts der Isar hospital clinic in Munich, the department of migrant psychological services at the Worker’s Welfare Association (AWO) in Munich, Refugio München, and the Eichstätt Catholic University. She continues to work at numerous state-accredited psychotherapy training institutions.
Kahraman specializes in the practice and teaching of anti-racist and context-sensitive psychotherapy, with an emphasis on (structural) discrimination and violence, transgenerational trauma, migration, and displacement. As an elected member of the German Chamber of Psychotherapists since 2017, she advocates for the identification and removal of barriers in patient care and for equal opportunities in access to psychotherapeutic education and professions.
Birsen Kahraman is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from November 2025 to January 2026.