Dr. Krista Koskinen is a board-certified psychiatrist whose work spans clinical psychiatry, psychotherapy, mental-health access, and culturally responsive care. She has practiced across outpatient, emergency, consultation-liaison, and inpatient settings in both the United States and Finland, giving her broad perspective on how mental-health needs present across different healthcare systems and populations.

She completed her psychiatry residency at George Washington University, where she subsequently served as Outpatient Chief Resident. Her clinical training included addiction, geriatric, child and adolescent, emergency, community, refugee and immigrant, psycho-oncology, and perinatal psychiatry. She also completed advanced training in relational psychoanalysis, self psychology, attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and multiple psychotherapy approaches.

Dr. Koskinen currently practices psychiatry with a particular emphasis on psychodynamic and solution-focused psychotherapy, providing culturally responsive care and medication management when clinically appropriate. Her international clinical experience includes work in Finland, Nepal, Vietnam, and Bangladesh, as well as community mental-health work focused on expanding access to care in underserved and post-conflict settings.

Within dekhAI’s AI for Good initiatives in mental health, Dr. Koskinen contributes clinical and ethical guidance to help ensure that the use of AI and other emerging technologies is considered through the lens of patient well-being, clinical appropriateness, cultural context, privacy, human oversight, and preservation of the therapeutic relationship. Her role is to help keep technology appropriately grounded in the needs of practitioners and the people they serve.

Dr. Koskinen earned her Doctor of Medicine from Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine in Sweden and completed her Psychiatry Residency at George Washington University. She is board certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and received George Washington University’s Residency Clinician Award for excellence in clinical skills, patient care, and professionalism.

Languages

• Finnish
• Swedish
• English
• French