Rana Kökçinar
Senior Psychotherapist, Family Therapist & Education Lead
Rana works with couples and families across a range of relational and life-stage challenges.
She supports people navigating complexity in their relationships, whether that be within families, partnerships, or in their internal landscape. She welcomes clients from all walks of life.
Rana offers therapy that is thoughtful, collaborative, and grounded in clinical depth. She takes a flexible approach, recognising that our most important relationships, both with others and within ourselves, are layered, complex, and deserving of patience, curiosity, care and respect. Her work is guided by the relational goals of her clients, with a strong emphasis on ongoing feedback to ensure therapy remains meaningful, relevant, and on track.
With Rana, you can expect open and compassionate conversations, genuine curiosity, and relational expertise, alongside a distinctive and engaging side-serving of light-heartedness. She brings a deep respect for the courage it takes to reflect inwardly and relate with authenticity and compassion. She enjoys facilitating therapy that works towards relational healing, inside and out.
Outside of work, Rana spends her time reading, dancing, hiking and camping.
For more information on Rana’s background and therapeutic approach, please click below.
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Rana has a background in laboratory medical sciences, working in human molecular genetics and ophthalmology labs, and has research experience in public health, implementing pathology services in remote communities in the Northern Territory.
She has been awarded numerous university undergraduate and graduate awards, and has taught psychology students at Adelaide University since 2023. She is engaged in a number of academic and research projects in the climate change distress space locally, nationally and internationally. She enjoys collaborating with researchers, clinicians and artists, offering systemic perspectives that work toward community responsiveness and wider-system healing. She strives to integrate this ongoing learning to her clinical work and AkindaCo's collective vision as an active board member and within the management team.
In addition to her clinical work, Rana is a peer-reviewed academic author, with multiple publications in international scholarly journals, and she regularly presents at both national and international conferences. Her ongoing academic writing and research engagement inform a practice that is both reflective and evidence-informed.
Qualifications and memberships:
Bachelor of Medical Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours)
Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Master of Clinical Family Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy Level 1 (In Progress)
Registered Clinical Counsellor (PACFA no. 10524)
General Member (Australian Association of Family Therapy)
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Rana's therapeutic approach is integrative, systemic, and trauma-informed, drawing particularly on Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Integrative Systemic Psychotherapy, Emotionally Focussed Family Therapy and a range of foundational and contemporary Family Therapy theories and modalities. Rana commonly works with concerns such as relational distress, parenting and family conflict, complex trauma and attachment difficulties, including family violence, identity development, grief and loss, emotional regulation, and intergenerational trauma.
Rana also holds in mind the broader contexts shaping people’s lives. She acknowledges the real material and systemic constraints individuals and families face, and remains curious about how people understand their circumstances, what is already working, and how change can be co-created together.