Nikki Rubin

Nikki Rubin, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in California and New York specializing in evidence-based therapies. She received her B.A. from UCSD in Literature/Writing where she also completed Minors in Human Development and Spanish Literature. Dr. Rubin earned both an M.A. in Psychology and a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University's APA accredited Graduate School of Education and Psychology.

She began her training in ACT and 3rd wave CBT during graduate school at Harbor-UCLA's Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clinic in Torrance, California. She completed an APA-accredited internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers University) in Newark, New Jersey where she provided 3rd wave CBT to patients in the university hospital as well as to inmates in Northern State Prison. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in CBT at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York where she also worked as a senior staff psychologist and served as the Co-Director of Clinical Training.Dr. Rubin began her own private practice in Manhattan in 2014 as part of a small community of clinicians in New York who specialize in ACT and 3rd wave CBT. She returned to her hometown of Los Angeles in 2018 to continue her work in providing high quality evidence-based psychological treatments for adolescents and adults. She offers telehealth services throughout New York and California, and in-person services in Los Angeles.

Dr. Rubin is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA where she trains clinical psychology doctoral students in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She previously worked as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Clinical Supervisor/Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Teachers College and as an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University's Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.

She is a full member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), and the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.