Matthew Mandelbaum, PhD, MSEd, MA

Dr. Matthew G. Mandelbaum is a Licensed Psychologist in New York and New Jersey, who works at the intersection of psychology, education, and social entrepreneurship to help corporate, institutional, and individual clients with complex and traumatic histories perform effectively. As a Dialectical Behavior Therapist, he serves professionals in business, healthcare, the arts & education, and emerging adults and university students. With expertise in learning and development, he is a member of the first cohort of The Linehan Institute’s Behavioral Tech Comprehensive Training for Independent Practitioners with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Intensive Training. Dr. Mandelbaum has a PhD in Educational Psychology from Fordham University (Phi Kappa Phi), an MSEd in Childhood General and Special Education from Bank Street College of Education, and an MA Scholar in Psychology from the New York University (Psi Chi). He has studied Fine Arts at the Art Students League of New York, and has a BA in Economics with a minor in History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Magna Cum Laude as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar (Phi Beta Kappa). He also has received an Executive Certificate in Non-Profit Leadership, also from Fordham University. Dr. Mandelbaum is a recipient of a New York City Department of Small Business Services NYC Business Solutions Success Story Award for Entrepreneurship. As a skilled generalist, Dr. Mandelbaum combines therapeutics and teaching and learning acumen with strategic planning, marketing, consultation, leadership and managerial skills, and research and development abilities to solve complex problems that help clients reach their goals on personal, familial, social, and professional levels.

Personal Growth and Relationship Counseling

Strategies and tips for individuals and couples seeking to improve their personal and relational dynamics Are you a smart, sensitive person eager for self-improvement? Looking to have personal growth for the sake of yourself and your relatives? Have you realized that the brute force cognitive or physical acumen is not enough to make the changes …

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The Role of Technology in Therapy

How online platforms and digital tools are transforming the counseling landscape Technology affords easy access to therapy in time and space, providing direct service with targeted interventions and improving capacity for independence and interdependence. Choose a psychologist who utilizes technology to help * recognize and elevate your talents. * be solution-focused. * improve your knowledge, …

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Emerging Trends in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Explore the latest methodologies and approaches that are shaping the future of therapy. Sensitive, Intelligent People Benefit from Therapeutic Tools for Life. Through counseling and psychotherapy, learn to build transferable knowledge, skills, and abilities to make a peaceful, joyful, & creative life. Gain mindfulness to be in the moment, see patterns and differences, and make …

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Bring Therapy With You

When you leave town, emotional baggage goes with you. Take your therapeutic tools with you, too. Take your therapy to go.  Psychologist Dr. Matthew Mandelbaum offers therapy in 41 states.  Learn knowledge, skills, and abilities to help be where you are, do your best, and be sustainably effective across the wheel of life. Are you …

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Counseling for Anxiety

Let’s face it.   Life is stressful.  All the effort for life achievements can be exhausting.   Plus, caring for yourself, your family, friends, and loved ones can make things even more overwhelming.   If anxiety, frustration, fear get your way, you may need some help.  Therapy, guidance, and counseling for anxiety may be of benefit to you. …

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The Benefits of Mindfulness and Meditation for Mental Health

Mindfulness can be defined as the ability to feel whole, integrated, and connected to your inner self and the world around you.  Through mindfulness, you can build a life of worth, meaning, purpose. Through mindfulness, you can improve your ability to reduce negative emotion, increase positive emotions, clarify values, and make sure your transactions match …

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The Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Low Self-Esteem

Learn to Live a Skillful, Peaceful Life Depression With depression, you may feel sad, miserable, desperate, sorrowful, melancholic, glum, gloomy, anguish, disconnected, or unhappy. Low Self-Esteem With low self-esteem, you may feel inadequate, insufficient, inferior, incapable, ineffective, or inefficient. In Combination Depression and low self-esteem can feed off each other and lead to challenges in …

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The Common Myths and Misconceptions about Psychotherapy and how to Overcome Them

Here are several myths and misconceptions about psychotherapy and ways to overcome them. Therapy can be a helpful, engaging experience where skills attained and lessons learned lead to building a sustainable life of worth. Approaching these myths and misconceptions directly opens the possibility for active participation in sessions and in life. You deserve to tell …

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What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is an emotion that is related to the major emotion Fear. Fear can range in intensity on a continuum including uneasiness, apprehension, nervousness, tenseness, fright, panic, terror, shock, horror, and dread.  Anxiety fits within this continuum.  Fear is helpful when there is a perceived credible threat to one’s life, health and well-being or to …

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Trauma Therapy

What Is Trauma? When your greater understanding of how the world works and how your life functions gets shattered, treatment may be warrented. If you have been exposed to threatened or actual harm that leads to instrusive or troublesome symptoms, avoidance, negative shifts in thoughts and feelings, and changes in arousal and reactivity, treatment may …

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