Education & Experience

Dr. Dina Cuervo, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in the states of California and New York. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Loma Linda University (APA accredited). She completed her doctoral internship at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York providing individual and group therapy to youth with substance abuse disorders, trauma, depression and severe behavioral issues. She completed her post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of California San Francisco-General Hospital consulting and performing clinical services to bring trauma sensitive practices to an urban inner-city school including mindfulness practices to teachers. Trauma-informed training includes EMDR and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Dr. Dina has extensive training in Gestalt Therapy, which focuses on the individual’s unique experience in the present moment and how unhealthy behavioral patterns have developed as an adaptation to one's environment. Although she is rooted in Gestalt Therapy, she has also received extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) during her early graduate career at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She has also conducted research and presented at national conferences in the area of child psychology and secondary traumatic stress.