
Joanna Robin
jrobin@westchesteranxietytreatment.com
917-608-5741
Joanna Robin, Ph.D
Dr Joanna Robin directs Westchester Anxiety Treatment Psychological Services. She specializes in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and has expertise in the treatment of anxiety, mood, and behavioral problems. Dr. Robin works with children, adolescents, and adults and offers individual and family therapy, as well as parent training. She has been trained by world-renowned experts in the field of anxiety and CBT. Dr Robin provides CBT with a warm, compassionate, and collaborative manner and she seeks to empower her patients through CBT.
Joanna Robin has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals on anxiety, parenting, emotion regulation and CBT. She is the co-author of The OCD Workbook for Kids, published in 2017. Dr Robin regularly provides workshops and trainings for parents and therapists on parenting, stress management, anxiety in youth, and CBT for anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders.
Dr Robin received her B.A. from Tufts University and a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from Temple University. Upon graduation, she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Robin went on to become a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center where she was a senior psychologist at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD) from 2007-2013. She continued teaching postdoctoral fellows and interns at New York Presbyterian hospital at both Columbia and Cornell from 2013 to 2017.
Joanna Robin has been involved in research focusing on the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxious youth, the role of parenting in the development and maintenance of anxiety youth, and the relationship between emotion regulation and anxiety. Dr. Robin has been involved in a number of NIMH-funded treatment outcome studies examining the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral treatments for youth with anxiety disorders. She has served as a cognitive-behavioral therapist and CBT supervisor on these studies. In 2004, she received a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health to study the relationship between parenting and child anxiety. Dr. Robin is active in the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the ABCT Child and Adolescent Anxiety Special Interest Group, and the American Psychological Association.
- Children
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Individual Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Research & Studies
Education

Temple University
Dr Robin completed her master and Ph.D in clinical psychology at Temple University under the mentorship of Dr Philip Kendall.

Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Robin completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center.

Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Robin was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center where she was a senior psychologist at the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD) from 2007-2013.

New York Presbyterian
University Hospital of
Columbia and Cornell
Dr. Robin continued teaching postdoctoral fellows and interns at New York Presbyterian hospital at both Columbia and Cornell from 2013 to 2017.