Dr. Jessica Latack

About me

Jessica Latack, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist

I am a licensed clinical psychologist, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. I am also a supervising psychologist at The Motherhood Center of New York. In my private practice, I provide short-term and long-term, evidence-based psychotherapy for individuals suffering from a wide range of disorders and interpersonal difficulties. I have specific expertise in women’s mental health, traumatic stress reactions, and parent-infant attachment. I also have extensive experience treating anxiety disorders and depression.

Education, Training & Experience

I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The University of Michigan and my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University (State University of New York), where I received extensive training in evidence-based treatments for a range of disorders across the lifespan. I have a passion for treating survivors of trauma, as well as women during the perinatal period and transition to motherhood.

I completed my clinical psychology internship at Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital, where I received intensive training in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and reproductive mental health, including perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADS). I completed my clinical postdoctoral fellowship at the Cognitive Therapy Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College. In 2018, I was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research at City University of London, studying maternal psychological adjustment to pregnancy and postnatal outcomes. Simultaneously, I completed advanced training in traumatic stress at the Tavistock Centre in London.

I am an active member of the academic community, with a particular interest in learning cutting-edge research and disseminating psychological advances via teaching and supervision. I am dedicated to training and mentorship, and supervise psychiatry residents and predoctoral psychology interns at Weill Cornell Medical College. I also provide supervision to trainees at the Motherhood Center of New York.

• City University of London, Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 
• Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell Cognitive Therapy Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, Postdoctoral Clinical Fellowship 
• Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Predoctoral Psychology Internship, with major rotations in Women’s Mental Health and PTSD 
• Stony Brook University (State University of New York) M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology 
• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, B.A. in Psychology

Professional Membership

• Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)
• International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy (ISIPT)
• International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health
• Women’s Mental Health Consortium of New York City (WMHC)
• New York City Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association (NYC-CBT)

Selected Publications and Presentations

Latack, J. A. (November, 2019). Understanding Maternal Adjustment to Pregnancy. Paper to be presented at MONA Biennial Perinatal Mental Health Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Latack, J. A. (July, 2019). Understanding Psychological Adjustment to Pregnancy. Invited talk at The Centre for Maternal and Child Health at the School of Health Sciences, London, UK.

Latack, J. A., & Hermann, A.D. (November, 2017). Understanding pregnancy as a period of interpersonal development: A study of maternal-infant individuation-separation. Poster presented at the 3rd Biennial Perinatal Mental Health Conference, Chicago, IL.

Barlé, N., Wortman, C. B., & Latack, J. A. (2017). Traumatic bereavement: Basic research and clinical implications. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 27(2), 127-139.

Davila, J., Mattanah, J., Bhatia, V., Latack, J. A., Feinstein, B. A., Eaton, N. R., Daks, J., Kumar, S., Lomash, E., McCormick, M., & Zhou, J. (2017). Romantic competence, healthy romantic functioning, and well-being in emerging adults. Personal Relationships, 24, 162-184.

Feinstein, B. A., Dyar, C., Bhatia, V., Latack, J. A., & Davila, J. (2016). Conservative beliefs and willingness to engage in romantic and sexual activities with a bisexual partner. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 1535-1550.

Feinstein, B. A., Latack, J. A., Bhatia, V., Davila, J., & Eaton, N. R. (2016). Romantic relationship involvement as a minority stress buffer in gay/lesbian versus bisexual individuals. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 20, 237-257.

Latack, J. A., Moyer, A., Simon, V. A., & Davila, J. (2015). Attentional bias for sexual threat among sexual victimization survivors: A meta-analytic review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 18(2), 172-184.

Latack, J. A., & Davila, J. (2015). Predicting changes in relational security among early adolescent girls: Parental relationships and romantic experiences. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 33(6), 792-813.

Latack, J. A., Rodriguez-Seijas, C., Stohl, M., Hasin, D., Blanco, C., & Eaton, N. R. (2015). Transdiagnostic psychopathology mediates the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and sexually transmitted diseases in adulthood. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 62, 71-79.

Elkington, K. S., Belmonte, K., Latack, J. A., Mellins, C. A., Wasserman, G. A., Donenberg, G. R., & Hirsch, J. S. (2014). An exploration of family and juvenile justice systems to reduce youth HIV/STI risk. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25(4), 700-716.

Feinstein, B. A., Dyar, C., Bhatia, V., Latack, J. A., & Davila, J. (2014). Willingness to engage in romantic and sexual activities with bisexual partners: Gender and sexual orientation differences. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 1(3), 255-262.

Huth-Bocks, A., Earls, L., & Latack, J. A. (2011). Infant-parent relationship disturbance in the context of interpersonal violence: A clinical case study of James. In Graham-Berman, S.A., & Levendosky, A.A. (Eds.). A Developmental Approach to Understanding and Treating the Effects of Domestic Violence across Childhood. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.