Professor Çiftçi is the faculty head for counseling and counseling psychology. Through her leadership positions and scholarship, she has worked to identify critical factors and develop interventions that will help build more inclusive environments particularly for marginalized communities in educational and training settings.
Çiftçi is the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s 2014 APA Presidential Citation and an APA fellow in Division 17: Society of Counseling Psychology and Division 52: International Psychology. She spent 16 years at Purdue University as a faculty and administrator before moving to ASU.