10th Annual ADHD Symposium: April 25
Dr. Katia Fredriksen
SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, April 25, 2026
8:00 am – 12:30 pm
Chesapeake Bay Academy
$30 – Conference Attendance
$15 – Book
$15 – Post-conference luncheon
Bundle: $55 (includes conference, book and luncheon)
REGISTRATION TO OPEN IN FEBRUARY
Schedule
8:00 am – Registration Opens
8:45 am – Welcome & Keynote
10:30 am – Breakout Session I
11:30 am – Breakout Session II
12:30 pm – Post Conference Luncheon
Dr. Katia Fredriksen was born in France and later moved with her parents to Norway and then to the Washington, D.C., area, where she grew up. She attended Princeton University and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with a certificate in French language and culture. Dr. Fredriksen spent a year studying and working in Norway and New Zealand before starting graduate school at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.
Dr. Fredriksen’s clinical training included a combination of inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy and assessment with children, adolescents, and adults. Her graduate research focused on health behaviors, including sleep and substance use, and she has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences. She completed her post-doctoral training at a private practice in the Boston area, where she focused on autism, genetic disorders, learning disorders, and attention and executive functioning in a pediatric population.
Dr. Fredriksen has worked at The Stixrud Group in Silver Spring, MD, since 2010 and is the Director of Training. In addition to training staff, Dr. Fredriksen lectures to parent groups and professional organizations. Dr. Fredriksen and her colleague, Dr. Yael Rothman, have teamed together to share evidence-based information with the public through Instagram and can be found @neuropsychmoms. In addition, they have collaborated to write a series of children’s books to teach elementary-aged children about their diagnoses. Their first two books, Different Thinkers ADHD and Different Thinkers Autism, were published in 2024 and 2025, and Different Thinkers Dyslexia will be available in fall 2026. Click here to learn more.
Breakout Sessions
Clinicians
Speakers to be announced – check back soon!
Educators
Impulsivity & AI: Finding Balance with Digital Tools
J.D. Ball, Ph.D. and Shantanu Tilak, Ph.D.
Social Emotional Learning through Music and Art
Leigh Ann Dickinson, MA, ATR and Leslie Magee, M.S.Ed., MT-BC
Parents/Caregivers
Regulation Strategies for Kids with ADHD
Mary Crutchfield, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C, CHP, Founder, Leva Psychiatry
Each year CBA works with our partners at CHKD to offer a community education program focused on the growing field of ADHD. The annual symposium is headlined by a nationally known expert, with break out sessions provided by local leaders in the field.
Continuing Education: 2.75 contact hours/re-certification points will be allotted for educational personnel, social workers, and nurses. Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters is an approved provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Virginia Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours will be awarded upon completion and submission of the electronic conference evaluation form. Presenters of today’s program have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with agencies or individuals that impact or influence this educational activity. This educational activity is offered with no commercial support/sponsorship, no endorsement of products, or discussion of off-label use of medications.