Lauren Latella, PhD is a psychologist at Bellevue Hospital Center’s Child and Adolescent Outpatient Department, clinical assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and private practice clinician based in New York City. She graduated from Fordham University’s Counseling Psychology PhD Program in May 2019 and completed her doctoral internship at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center and post-doctoral fellowship in the Mood Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute. Dr. Latella has a strong background in evidence-based interventions evaluating and treating multicultural diverse populations of children, adolescents, and young adults presenting with behavioral, emotional, developmental, and medical needs. She has specific training in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), and play therapy for individuals diagnosed with mood, anxiety, personality, and trauma-related disorders.
Dr. Latella also has extensive training in mindfulness-based interventions, gender-affirming psychotherapy, and neuropsychological assessments. Additionally, she has a special interest in working with children and adolescents and their families coping with chronic illnesses. She worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center engaged in pediatric neuropsychological and physician-patient communication research and completed a practicum as a clinician on the Pediatric Psycho-Oncology Team. Dr. Latella is dedicated to providing scientifically-informed, holistic care to children, adolescents, and young adults as well as their families through a social-justice and multicultural framework.
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