Dr. Matthew Paldy, PhD, LP
I am a licensed psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. My training has given me a deep appreciation for how grief, trauma, and unprocessed emotional pain can quietly organize a person’s inner world, their relationships, and even their professional life. I work with individuals who sense that something meaningful has been lost — in themselves, in others, or in their lives — and who are seeking a way to understand, mourn, and eventually transform that loss.
For many years I have rigorously studied the emotional and relational dimensions of our emotional and relational lives, with particular focus on trauma and grief, and how they can remain active long after the events have passed. My academic background includes degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Stony Brook University, and the University of Rhode Island. I then completed six years of intensive postdoctoral psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and the Theodor Reik Clinical Center in Manhattan.
This depth-oriented background allows me to work beyond surface symptoms — such as anxiety, depression, or relationship conflict — to explore the unconscious impacts of loss, betrayal, childhood wounds, and traumatic experience. Together, we attend to what has been carried silently, often for years, so that it can finally be felt, understood, and processed.
I work with individuals and couples who are confronting loss — whether from a breakup, death, estrangement, missed opportunities, or a more diffuse sense that life has not turned out as hoped. I offer a safe, confidential, and empathic environment in which painful experiences can be spoken, mourned, and slowly transformed.
Rather than moving quickly to “fix” feelings, I help clients deepen their understanding of themselves, their histories, and the emotional patterns that may have formed around trauma. Through this process, people often discover new meaning in their lives, greater self-compassion, and a renewed capacity for intimacy, creativity, and connection.