Jon Frederickson, MSW
Washington, DC

Jon Frederickson is a therapist with over 25 years of experience, the last nine of which have been focused on the practice and training of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He studied with the founder of ISTDP, Dr. Habib Davanloo, for two years and was in weekly supervision with Patricia Coughlin, Ph.D. for seven years. He is the co-chair of the Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) training program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Mr. Frederickson has also been the co-chair of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program and the Supervision Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry. Currently he is chair of the ISTDP Core Training Program of the Norwegian ISTDP Society, and he teaches ISTDP at the Laboratorium in Warsaw, Poland, for supervision groups in Denmark, the EDT Society in Treviso, Italy and at the Southern California Society for ISTDP. He has given videotape presentations at conferences in the United States, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Italy.

He practices, teaches, and supervises in the area of ISTDP. He provides ISTDP training workshops, supervision groups, and conferences in the U.S. and Europe. He is the author of a book on psychodynamic psychotherapy: /Psychodynamic Psychotherapy—Learning to Listen from Multiple Perspectives/. And he has published over twenty papers, several of which are in the Ad Hoc Bulletin of Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. He serves as the treasurer for IEDTA.

Jon can be heard talking about EDT on a podcast on the internet at www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_index.php?idx=119&d=1

Contact Jon Frederickson, MSW | Email: jfrederickson@verizon.net