The formation of professional culture of an individual is one of the most important conditions for changing the system of training qualified educational psychologists. This article aims at studying the main prerequisites for effective building of professional culture of young specialists in the field of educational psychology. The research collected data from previous researches and analyzed them using content analysis. The analysis show that future specialists' positive motivation to work is one of the key aspects that contribute to successful development of his/her competence and professional culture. The higher educational institution is an important factor for the formation of a new value system and should use its educational potential to form the proper attitude of future educational psychologists to the future professional activity.