Francheska Perepletchikova is a clinical psychologist who created DBT-C, an evidence-based adaptation of the behavioural health therapy model Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). She’s an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she focuses on helping pre-adolescents and teens deal with serious emotional and behavioural issues such as severe aggression, self-harm, and treatment-resistant depression. Francheska has also taught at Yale University and Weill Cornell Medicine, where she led two major clinical trials on DBT-C. In 2015, her expertise in DBT earned her a role as a trainer and consultant with Behavioral Tech. Four years later, she started the Youth-Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Program (Y-DBT), which offers therapy and support for young people struggling with mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and more. The Y-DBT program includes individual therapy, skills training, family therapy, and parent training.