Katie Dixon-Gordon, Ph.D.

Katie Dixon-Gordon, Ph.D., received her undergraduate training from the University of Washington, where she worked as a research intern and staff member at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC), directed by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. Dr. Dixon-Gordon received her doctoral training from Simon Fraser University working with Alex Chapman, Ph.D., and completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Dixon-Gordon has served as an investigator on several grant-funded studies of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), BPD, and self-injury, and has published many theoretical and empirical articles on emotion regulation, BPD, and DBT. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches, conducts research, and supervises the DBT Program.