Tamar P. Martin-Franklin is a licensed counseling psychologist with a subspecialty in clinical neuropsychology. She completed the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in 2017. She is also certified as a rehabilitation counselor. Her background includes several years experience working in the field of education and rehabilitation medicine. In addition, she has a private practice in Greenwich Village and provides individual and family therapy. Dr. Martin has published on several topics, including women with disabilities, pediatric brain injury, and educational adaptations and behavioral strategies to improve performance of students with cognitive impairments in the classroom. She also presents at workshops and conferences.
Dr. Martin-Franklin has been a member of the faculty and teaches graduate courses in clinical rehabilitation and mental health counseling at Hunter College, CUNY, Department of Educational Foundations and Counseling Programs and at New York University, Applied Psychology, Steinhardt. She was also the coordinator of the Work-Study Project in rehabilitation counseling with a specialization in substance use disorders for more than 10 years. She was the project psychologist for the Traumatic Brain Injury Project at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York City, from 1995 – 2001.
Dr. Martin-Franklin is also an avid fly fisher who combined her knowledge and skills as a rehabilitation psychologist with her love and appreciation of fly fishing to support veterans with disabilities living in her community. From 2008 – 2012, she was the Program Lead for Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. (PHWFF) in New York City that offers an alternative approach to recovery and community re-integration for active duty military personnel and veterans with disabilities who have endured the stress of serving in harm’s way. She later became the regional coordinator from 2010 – 2016 for the Mid-Atlantic region of PHWFF that included 14 programs in New York and New Jersey.