Helping parents help their kids.
Dr. Francheska Perepletchikova is a world-leading developer, researcher, trainer and treatment developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children.
Meet Dr. Francheska Perepletchikova
Clinical psychologist and founder of internationally utilized DBT-C
Francheska Perepletchikova, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMass Medical School. She is a world leading practitioner, researcher, trainer, and the founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children (DBT-C). She specializes in psychological services for children with severe emotional and behavioral dysregulation, including suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury, severe verbal and physical aggression, treatment-resistant depression, social phobia, and generalized anxiety. As a faculty at the Yale University and Weill Cornell Medicine, she developed DBT-C and conducted several randomized clinical trials to empirically validate this model.
Now Dr. Perepletchikova offers training and workshops in her method for both parents and caregivers, and clinical professional who want achieve certification in DBT-C across the globe.
Who is a Supersenser?
A supersenser is a person who was born emotionally sensitive. As everything else, emotional sensitivity is dialectical, and it presents with its own unique challenges as well as benefits.
What is DBT-C?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Children works to help relieve behavioral dsycontrol and distress in emotionally sensitive children, or ‘supersensers‘, by working on both the relationship with the environment and the relationship with self.
What is Core Problem Analysis?
Core Problem Analysis (CPA) is a addresses and provides therapeutic strategies for improving vulnerabilities in our three core senses – self-love, safety, and belonging.