Kiki Fehling

Dr. Kiki Fehling is a licensed psychologist, author, speaker, and expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Kiki earned her undergraduate degree at Yale University in 2011, before matriculating to the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Rutgers University. Throughout her education, Kiki received awards for her research in the areas of self-harm and LGBTQ+ mental health, and her work has been published in academic journals and presented at national conferences. She has been extensively trained and supervised in DBT, DBT-Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and other cognitive behavioral therapies. Kiki has clinical expertise in borderline personality disorder, trauma, PTSD, self-harm, and emotion dysregulation. She also specializes in LGBTQ-affirmative and neurodiversity-affirmative care. After becoming licensed in 2020, Kiki was certified in DBT by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, and she spent several years as a staff psychologist at the NYCBT group practice in New York, NY where she coordinated an LGBTQ-affirmative DBT program. Beyond her clinical work, Kiki is passionate about disseminating evidence-based mental health information. She is the director of clinical content at Now Matters Now, a mental health nonprofit founded by people with lived experience of suicide attempts, addiction, and other mental health struggles. As a content creator (@dbtkiki), she regularly shares DBT skills and mental health information with 70k+ followers on social media. Kiki’s first book “Self-Directed DBT skills” was published in March 2023, and her deck of DBT skills coping cards was published in October 2024, both by the Penguin Random House imprint Zeitgeist. She is currently writing another workbook on DBT for LGBTQ+ people, set to be published in June 2026 by New Harbinger. Her writing has been featured in Recovery.com, Psyche, and other online publications.