Let $$\mathscr {T}=(V, \mathcal E)$$ be a leafless, locally finite rooted directed tree. We associate with $$\mathscr {T}$$ a one parameter family of Dirichlet spaces $$\mathscr {H}_q~(q \geqslant 1)$$ , which turn out to be Hilbert spaces of vector-valued holomorphic functions defined on the unit disc $$\mathbb D$$ in the complex plane. These spaces can be realized as reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces associated with the positive definite kernel $$\begin{aligned} \kappa _{\mathscr {H}_q}(z, w)= & {} \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\frac{(1)_n}{(q)_n}\,{z^n \overline{w}^n} ~P_{\langle e_{\mathsf {root}}\rangle } \\&+\,\sum _{v \in V_{\prec }} \sum _{n=0}^{\infty } \frac{(n_v +2)_n}{(n_v + q+1)_n}\, {z^n \overline{w}^n}~P_{v}~(z, w \in \mathbb D), \end{aligned}$$ where $$V_{\prec }$$ denotes the set of branching vertices of $$\mathscr {T}$$ , $$n_v$$ denotes the depth of $$v \in V$$ in $$\mathscr {T},$$ and $$P_{\langle e_{\mathsf {root}}\rangle }$$ , $$~P_{v}~(v \in V_{\prec })$$ are certain orthogonal projections. Further, we discuss the question of unitary equivalence of operators $$\mathscr {M}^{(1)}_z$$ and $$\mathscr {M}^{(2)}_z$$ of multiplication by z on Dirichlet spaces $$\mathscr {H}_q$$ associated with directed trees $$\mathscr {T}_1$$ and $$\mathscr {T}_2$$ respectively.
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