Dr. Matthew Paldy, PhD, LP

NYS Licensed Psychoanalyst & Psychotherapist

My professional background spans psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, academia, business, technology, and organizational development. Before entering private practice, I worked in financial services, technology, education, and the public sector, and taught at the university level.

This experience has given me a broad perspective on the personal and professional challenges faced by people working in demanding environments, including executives, entrepreneurs, academics, engineers, and other professionals.

Clinical & Psychoanalytic Training

I am a New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with a PhD in Organizational Behavior. My clinical training includes six years of postgraduate psychoanalytic study at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) and the Theodor Reik Clinical Center.

My clinical work is grounded in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches, with particular attention to the ways people understand themselves, experience relationships, and develop patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating.

Academic, Educational & Public Sector Experience

Academic & Teaching Experience

• Faculty member, Marymount Manhattan College, College of Business Administration.
• Adjunct Faculty, University of Rhode Island, College of Business Administration.
• Adjunct Faculty, Saint Joseph's University, Executive MBA Program.

Public Sector Technology & Educational Projects

• New York City Department of Education: IT Project Manager for the iLearn Program for NYC schools.
• New York City School Construction Authority: IT project management for implementation of Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Management software.
• The College Board & Kaplan Test Prep: Led IT integration and software development initiatives.

Director, Critical Thinking Program

• Developed a specialized critical thinking program for bank examiners in the Bank Supervision Group.
• Revitalized the Bank’s new-hire onboarding by integrating case studies and game-based learning to improve engagement and knowledge retention.
• Created a case-study training framework for Bank Supervision managers.
• Implemented internal career-pathing software to guide employees' careers with the Bank.

Technology & Software (Financial Services, Media & Education)

Roles in software engineering, financial operations, and IT management:

• Financial Services: Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), Chase, CIBC Capital Markets, Bank Leumi, W.P. Carey Investments, Dow Jones Telerate. Supported trading and financial platforms, developed software and low-latency, high-speed ticker feed systems for stock exchanges in the U.S. and Latin America in a Stratus VOS/C/PL-1 environment.
• Financial and Business Management: Simon & Schuster Higher Education Group.
• Media Technology: ContextWeb/PulsePoint and Carat USA. Developed software and media platforms using ASP.NET, C#, and SQL Server.
• Educational Services: Kaplan Test Prep — managed application development and software systems for nationwide test centers.

Founder & Lead Educator

Founded and led Creative Math Workshops for Teachers, providing hands-on approaches for supplementing K–8 mathematics curricula.

The workshops helped teachers engage students in mathematics as a creative and enjoyable activity, with an emphasis on building confidence, uncovering patterns, applying mathematics to real-world problems, and developing mental arithmetic skills. Workshops were tailored to participating schools' curricula and interests through advance consultation.

Corporate Trainer

Served as a corporate trainer for enterprise financial database modeling and reporting software, leading multi-day training programs for finance and accounting teams at major corporations. Clients included Marriott, Chase, American Express, British Petroleum (BP), Nabisco, McDonald's, Greyhound, Liberty Mutual, Ford, General Motors (GM), Merrill Lynch, Xerox, Merck, and Mobil.

Education

PhD, Organizational Behavior
University of Rhode Island

Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Training
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) / Theodor Reik Clinical Center
Six years of postgraduate training

MS, Management and Policy
Stony Brook University

BS, Pure Mathematics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

My education and professional experience have taken me through several very different worlds—academia, technology, financial services, organizational development, and psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. That breadth continues to inform how I understand the people I work with and the complex environments in which they live and work.