I trained as a translator and interpreter, and it’s been a discipline I’ve built a career on. My simultaneous interpretation experience in booths and translations projects of more than 10 books have taught me that translation is never just about swapping words. It’s about rewriting a text so it feels native to the culture it lands in, without losing what made the original work.
That’s where my two worlds meet. When I translate a book on communication, leadership, or emotional growth, I’m not simply chasing the right Turkish sentence. I’m asking whether the idea itself will actually land, provoke, or heal the way it was meant to.
Language precision meeting psychological insight is where my work gets genuinely interesting.
Building on Zimbardo’s research into how people relate to time, this book turns that research into an actual therapeutic technique, particularly for people carrying post-traumatic stress, aimed at shifting someone from being stuck replaying the past toward a more balanced, future-oriented sense of time. It speaks to anyone whose past experiences keep intruding on the…
This is the hands-on follow-up to Gibson’s earlier work on emotionally immature parents, shifting from diagnosis to practice — concrete ways for adult children to recognize their own emotional needs, stop outsourcing their sense of okay-ness to a parent who was never reliably available for that, and build the capacity to comfort themselves. It speaks…
A crowd-written guide pulling together translators, academics, translation students, and industry figures, each contributing their own experience-based take on the profession — practical advice, career paths, and personal stories rather than a single unified theory. It exists to fill a fairly specific gap: people entering or considering the translation field in Turkey, without an obvious…