Valery Fradkov is the founder and Clinical Director of the Advanced Psychology Institute, and the developer of Message-Centered Psychology, the framework the Institute is built on. He has been practicing psychotherapy for over twenty years, alongside research and teaching in the psychology of emotion and communication.

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Before psychology, he spent two decades in physics – at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was a research professor. He then spent nearly a decade on Wall Street, as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg, and other major financial institutions. He holds a Doctor of Science degree in physics and mathematics and master's degrees in engineering and in clinical social work. He has published more than fifty peer-reviewed papers.

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Psychology found Valery by accident (see Our Framework for more details), and gained his scientific way of thinking in return: attention to terminology, abstraction and modeling, and structured testing of hypotheses.

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For him, each client carries a complex inner universe and invites him in – and Valery studies it the way he once studied the outer one as a physicist. The study is not impersonal; it is full of empathy and respect: he is a guest in his clients' worlds, there to understand and help, not to judge, criticize, or command.

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As a clinician, he works with adults and teenagers on problems rooted in broken interpersonal communication and emotion regulation – a range that runs from anxiety to addiction and from uncontrolled anger to personality disorders. As Clinical Director, he supervises the Institute's clinicians, trains them in Message-Centered Psychology, and teaches continuing-education courses for licensed professionals through the Institute's ASWB-approved program.

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He is licensed in New Jersey and New York and sees clients by video, in English and Russian.

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