Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Evidence-based CBT tailored to each client’s needs, goals, strengths, and everyday experiences.
Understanding how a young person thinks is only the beginning.
Johana Rosas, PhD, helps children, young adults, and families make sense of patterns in thinking, learning, emotion, and executive functioning and turn that understanding into meaningful next steps.
Careful assessment can offer more than answers. It can give young people language for understanding themselves, help families recognize both strengths and challenges, and create a practical path toward greater confidence and independence.
About Johana
Science, clinical judgment, and a deeply human view of development.
Dr. Rosas is a clinical and developmental psychologist with experience across neuropsychological assessment, psychotherapy, child development, and large-scale health research. Her work is grounded in a simple idea: understanding a young person requires looking beyond a score or diagnosis to see how that person learns, responds, relates, and navigates everyday life.
She earned her PhD and MS in Clinical and Developmental Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and completed an APA-accredited predoctoral internship focused on child trauma and early intervention.
PhDClinical & Developmental Psychology
NYLicensed Psychologist · License #027763
EN / ESFluent in English and Spanish
Specialized clinical training
A broad foundation for thoughtful, individualized care.
Therapeutic approaches
Interpersonal Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness and relaxation techniques.
Clinical work
From clarity to practical change.
Johana’s approach connects careful evaluation with understandable feedback, useful strategies, and a collaborative relationship with young people and their families. Her psychotherapy work is grounded primarily in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and individualized to each client’s needs and goals.
Comprehensive evaluation
Exploring attention, learning, executive functioning, emotional well-being, behavior, and cognitive strengths.
Meaningful feedback
Translating findings into clear language so young people and their families can understand the full picture.
Strategies for daily life
Connecting insight to realistic approaches for planning, organization, task initiation, and self-monitoring.
Johana provides clinical services at multiple locations, including East End Psychological Services, a private practice on Long Island.
Research
Advancing what we understand about children, families, and development.
At NYU Langone Health, as part of the RECOVER Study, Johana develops and leads comprehensive training programs while supervising research personnel in the administration of structured and semi-structured diagnostic interviews and neurocognitive assessments.
View Google ScholarCurrent research
COVID-19 and long-term outcomes
Prevention
Parenting and early learning
Development
Early relationships and adversity
Selected publications
Child Development & Mental Health Research.
2026Social determinants of health and pediatric long COVID in the USJAMA Pediatrics2025Impacts of a tiered intervention on child internalizing and externalizing behavior in the context of maternal depressionDevelopment and Psychopathology 37(1), 136–1462025Social determinants of health and risk for long COVID in the US RECOVER-adult cohortAnnals of Internal Medicine 178(9), 1287–12972024Researching COVID to enhance recovery (RECOVER) pediatric study protocol: Rationale, objectives and designPLOS ONE 19(5), e0285635
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