PhD Katia Fredriksen

Dr. Fredriksen was born in France to a New Zealand mother and a Norwegian father and later moved with her parents to Norway and then to the Washington, D.C., area, where she grew up. She attended Princeton University and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a certificate in French language and culture. Dr. Fredriksen spent a year studying and working in Norway and New Zealand, “returning to her roots,” before starting graduate school at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Fredriksen’s clinical training included a combination of inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy and assessment with children, adolescents, and adults, including work at a community mental health center. Her graduate research focused on health behaviors, including sleep and substance use, and she has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences. She completed her post-doctoral training at a private practice in the Boston area, where she focused on autism, genetic disorders, learning disorders, and attention and executive functioning in a pediatric population. Dr. Fredriksen continues to lecture to parent groups and professional organizations.

Dr. Fredriksen lives in the D.C. metro area with her husband, two children, cat, and parakeet. She enjoys reading cozy mysteries, puttering around the house, going out to restaurants, hanging out with friends and neighbors, traveling, exercising (sort of), and navigating the work/life balance necessitated by modern motherhood (not so much).