Yuli Fradkin is a board-certified psychiatrist with more than twenty-five years in medicine, and the Institute's affiliated psychiatrist. API clients see him when therapy alone is not enough – for a psychiatric evaluation, a second opinion on a diagnosis, or medication that is started, adjusted, and reviewed in coordination with the client's therapist. He treats children, adolescents, and adults, in English and Russian, by video and in person from offices in Fort Lee and Montclair, New Jersey, and Manhattan.

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He trained in psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York and completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, after a medical degree from Russian State Medical University. He has held staff and teaching appointments at Yale School of Medicine and Rutgers, where he is an assistant professor, and has published on autism spectrum disorder and related conditions. He continues to supervise child psychiatry fellows and to take part in psychiatric research.

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His interest has always been in both sides of the field: the biology of mental illness and the process of change in psychotherapy. That is what makes the collaboration with the Institute work. Medication is not offered as a substitute for understanding what a symptom is asking for; it is used, when it is needed, to make that work possible.

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Dr. Fradkin's psychiatric practice is separate from the Institute, and appointments for psychiatric care are arranged with his office. Within the Institute, though, he is not an outside referral. When a client's treatment team includes him, he works hand in hand with the other members, sharing his observations, adjusting medication in step with what is happening in therapy, and taking part in the team's discussions of the client's progress.

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