Alan Fruzzetti, PhD is an internationally recognized Dialectical Behavior Therapy researcher, teacher, and supervisor. His research focuses on the connections between severe individual problems (including suicidality and non-suicidal self-harm) and interpersonal/family processes, and their interplay with emotion dysregulation.

Dr. Fruzzetti has lectured and trained professionals and the public in Dialectical Behavior Therapy in more than twenty-five countries and has founded and directed outpatient and residential DBT programs, for adults, adolescents, and their families. He is the co-creator of the NEA-BPD free Family Connections programs for parents, partners, and other loved ones of people with borderline personality disorder and severe emotion dysregulation. He has adapted and implemented Dialectical Behavior Therapy for multiple underserved populations.

Dr. Fruzzetti is a Research Fellow at the National Suicide Research Foundation at the University College Cork in Ireland and leads the National DBT Team in Ireland. Previously Dr. Fruzzetti served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and co-founded the Center for Trauma and Stress Education and the Center for DBT and Families at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts. He has authored more than 125 research and clinical papers, book chapters and books.