About

Dr. Altagracia Gomez Aracena is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Specialist. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Instituto Tecnologico and completed her residency and subsequently her fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, where she was appointed Chief in both programs. She has been working as an attending psychiatrist at Robert Wood Johnson- Barnabas Health covering adult program and the child and adolescent outpatient clinic. Dr. Gomez Aracena provides non-judgmental and compassionate care and strategies to achieve and embrace one's full potential. She provides psychiatric evaluations, medication management along with psychotherapy and follow-ups to adults, children & adolescents for different mental disorders: depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, ADHD, PTSD, ODD, school problems, selective mutism, and Tourette's syndrome. Dr. Gomez Aracena works in collaboration with the school to help with the child's academic performance. She provides parenting and mental health strategies to families to improve behavior and family dynamics. She is also an active member of  the  American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Association (AACAP) and American Psychiatry Association (APA).