I completed a BSc in Psychology (2018) in Turkey, including a six-month exchange at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. I then earned an MSc in Clinical Psychology and worked in Turkey for almost four years as a clinical psychologist and EABCT-accredited CBT psychotherapist. Later, I moved to the UK to pursue an MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology at Bournemouth University, where I completed a placement under the supervision of Dr Ellen Seiss and graduated with Distinction. My MSc dissertation examined how contamination tendencies influence self-ratings and facial expressions when viewing dirty virtual environments. Afterwards, I volunteered as a research assistant in the Multimodal Immersive Neuro-sensing (MINE) Research Cluster. I am now a fully funded PhD researcher in Psychology at Bournemouth University, developing and evaluating an immersive VR tool for OCD assessment focused on washing and checking behaviours, combining self-report with behavioural and physiological measures.