Dr. Tamara Latawiec

Dr. Latawiec is a licensed psychologist who works psychodynamically with adults and older adolescents in her solo private practice in Red Bank, NJ. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from Barnard College at Columbia University and a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the GSAPP at Rutgers University in 2008. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Latawiec worked in the mental health field for several years as a research assistant, social worker assistant, and mental health specialist at major teaching hospitals and university-based health systems.

During graduate school, she worked in several community mental health clinics, a college counseling center, and a hospice, prior to completing her internship year at the Karen Horney Clinic in New York City, a non-profit outpatient mental health clinic that provides low-cost psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis to the community through its affiliation with the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. While at GSAPP, she was awarded an assistantship as one of the coordinators in its training clinic. She also received the GSAPP Scholar Award and the Robert D. Weitz Professional Award.

After graduation, Dr. Latawiec completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rutgers Counseling Center (CAPS) and began private practice. She joined the GSAPP Alumni Organization and served as its treasurer for two years. She also engaged in event planning for two spring celebrations and two galas, and participated in an alumni directory project and an early career clinic supervision project. Additionally, she has been an active member of the New Jersey Psychological Association (NJPA), assisting members with many health insurance-related issues, receiving a Member Recognition Award and a Presidential Recognition Certificate. She re-founded the Monmouth/Ocean County Psychological Association (MOCPA), a chapter affiliate of NJPA, after it had been defunct for nearly a decade, transforming it from an informal unincorporated association to a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization, writing its bylaws, securing a board, and designing and maintaining its website and member directories from scratch. Dr. Latawiec continues to serve as its president seven years later, and she also spent one year on the NJPA board as a MOCPA affiliate representative.

When not working, Dr. Latawiec enjoys employing her eye for aesthetics by decorating and landscaping her home, and she loves spending summer weekends in the sun and on the sand as an unabashed beach bum.