Therapy for Creative & Tech Professionals

Professionals in technology, design, engineering, and digital media often operate under relentless deadlines, constant innovation pressure, and rapidly shifting expectations. Dr. Matthew Paldy brings a unique psychotherapeutic approach informed by decades of hands-on experience managing large-scale technical systems, leading software development teams, and overseeing high-stakes implementations—such as supervising 15 interconnected websites and a 550,000-line codebase at The Next Healthcare Networks and coordinating enterprise-level projects for NYC’s Department of Education iLearnNYC initiative. His clinical work helps clients navigate burnout, imposter syndrome, creative block, role ambiguity, and the chronic stress common to high-intensity digital environments. Therapy provides a grounded space to stabilize, make decisions with clarity, and regain a sense of personal agency amidst constant change.

Whether you’re a developer, UX designer, data scientist, filmmaker, product manager, marketer, or startup founder, your inner life is often as complex as the systems you build. Dr. Paldy’s background integrating C#, .NET, SQL Server, JavaScript, PHP, AWS, and enterprise database architecture, combined with his experience teaching organizational behavior and human motivation at Marymount Manhattan, St. Joseph’s Executive MBA Program, and the University of Rhode Island, enables him to speak the language of both creativity and technology. In therapy, he helps clients understand the psychological patterns that shape their working lives—such as perfectionism, over-functioning, emotional reactivity, avoidance, team conflict, or difficulty setting boundaries. His understanding of workflow dynamics, engineering culture, code review stressors, creative production cycles, and distributed-team communication allows him to help clients work through emotional and interpersonal challenges with nuance and authenticity.

Creative and tech professions often blend identity with output—leading to cycles of self-doubt, performance anxiety, or feeling defined by deadlines, feedback loops, and product cycles. Dr. Paldy’s experience directing critical thinking and performance-enhancement programs for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, performing market and behavioral research for Dell, and developing complex educational technologies, HR systems, and analytics platforms gives him rare insight into how individuals function within large systems. In therapy, he integrates performance psychology, emotional regulation techniques, and insight-oriented work to help clients stay grounded, reconnect with creative flow, navigate workplace conflict, and build resilience. Clients gain the psychological tools needed to sustain long-term well-being—and to feel more like themselves in environments that often demand constant reinvention.