John A. Fredrickson

John Fredrickson, LCSW, serves as the Team Leader for the Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Team at the New York University Student Health Center. He previously served as a clinical social worker at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, an outpatient medical and mental health clinic focused on LGBTQ+ healthcare, where he initiated the DBT Skills Training program. Mr. Fredrickson specializes in work with gender and sexuality, mindfulness, emotion regulation, HIV/AIDS, relationships and intimacy, and life adjustments.

Mr. Fredrickson is an alumnus the DBT Training Program and Lab at the Columbia School of Social Work, and has received advanced training in DBT through Behavioral Tech LLC. He participated in a weeklong Advanced Intensive with Dr. Marsha Linehan in 2013, and has been directly supervised by Dr. Andre Ivanoff, President of Behavioral Tech LLC and President of the Linehan Institute, while implementing DBT skills training groups at a federal prison. He serves as a field instructor for CSSW’s DBT Training Program and Lab, the only DBT training program for social workers in the nation.