Dr. Tatiana Vera is a compassionate, culturally responsive therapist who provides evidence-based therapy for children, teens, young adults, and families. After obtaining her PhD in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University, Dr. Tatiana trained both abroad, providing services in Spanish in Peru, and domestically, providing services across inpatient, intensive outpatient, community mental health, and family-based settings.

Dr. Tatiana specializes in supporting youth and young adults navigating anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, trauma, identity development, family stress, life transitions, and behavioral challenges. She also works with parents, particularly those parenting complex, high acuity, and/or neurodivergent children. She brings warmth, curiosity, and clinical depth to her work, helping clients feel understood while building practical skills for meaningful change.

Dr. Tatiana provides therapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families using evidence-based approaches including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She also integrates Internal Family Systems-informed approaches, and EMDR-informed techniques as appropriate. Her work is grounded in both research and real-world clinical experience with youth and families facing complex emotional and behavioral needs.

With specialized training in bilingual and bicultural mental health, Dr. Tatiana offers therapy in both English and Spanish and is especially passionate about providing culturally responsive care for Latinx, immigrant, bicultural, and first-generation families. She understands that therapy is most effective when it honors the full context of a client’s life, including culture, family systems, identity, language, and lived experience.

Dr. Tatiana also has experience working closely with parents and caregivers, helping families better understand their child or teen’s emotional world while building more attuned, effective responses at home. Whether a parent is navigating school stress, emotional outbursts, anxiety, self-harm concerns, family conflict, or the transition into young adulthood, she provides a steady and collaborative space for support.

Dr. Tatiana’s approach is relational, trauma-informed, and strengths-based, helping clients build insight, emotional regulation, resilience, and a stronger sense of self, while honoring their identity.

Whether your child is struggling with big emotions, your teen is feeling overwhelmed or disconnected, your young adult is navigating anxiety or identity development, or you are a parent seeking support, Dr. Tatiana offers thoughtful, evidence-based care designed to help clients and families move toward healing, connection, and growth.

Registered Psychological Associate, #PSB94029188

As a Post Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Tatiana is supervised by Dr. Ann Hirsch, PSY34869

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Counseling Psychology—Columbia University, Teacher’s College

Masters of Philosophy, Counseling Psychology—Columbia University, Teacher’s College

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology—Barnard College