Assoc. Prof. Meltem Anafarta Ş. has received her psychology undergraduate degree from METU in 1997. She received MSc. degree in 2000 and PhD. degree in 2007 in the field of Clinical Psychology at the same university. In her graduate years, by the scholarship of combined doctoral program granted by TUBITAK, she first visited AAI (Adult Attachment Interview) Institute, Bergen - Norway and then the Attachment lab in SUNY, Stony Brook-New York where she collaborated with Prof Everett and Harriet Waters. As a visiting scholar she both focused on various assessment techniques of attachment including observation, interviews, and projective materials and the utilization of these materials in clinical field. In the meantime, she completed the AAI training and received her certification from UCLA-Berkeley as reliable coder.

Anafarta Ş. has started her academic career in 1999 as a research assistant in METU-Psychology Department. Between 2006 - 2022, she worked as a full-time faculty at Ufuk University Psychology Department where she established her lab "Attachment Research in Clinical Psychology" and conducted research with volunteered and enthusiastic students. As of March 2023, she started to work as a full-time faculty in the Psychology Department of Social Sciences University of Ankara.