About Me

Matt Aibel, LCSW is an experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He sees patients in New York City and remotely. He has studied, consulted, and collaborated with many of the nation’s most influential psychoanalysts. In addition to working with patients, he teaches, lectures, writes, edits, and supervises other therapists.

Education/Training

Matt holds degrees from Yale (BA, cum laude) and NYU (MSW, academic honors) as well as certifications in Psychoanalysis and Comprehensive Psychotherapy and in Clinical Supervision from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), a four-year postgraduate training program in contemporary psychodynamic and psychoanalytic treatment modalities.

Teaching

Faculty/supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), Adelphi University’s Derner School of Psychology, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and the St. Petersburg (Russia) Relational Study Group. He teaches theory & practice courses and conducts individual and group supervision.

In addition, he teaches, leads workshops, presents his theoretical and clinical work, and moderates panels at conferences, colloquia and webinars, nationally and internationally.

Institutes and organizations where he has presented include:

International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), Division 39 (American Psychological Association), Kiev International School of Relational Psychoanalysis, National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), The Fifth Avenue Counseling Center, and IARPP-Australia.

Publications

Submissions Editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, a peer-review journal.

Editor of The IARPP Bulletin, the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy newsletter which reaches over 2000 therapists worldwide.

Psychoanalytic writing is published in:

Psychoanalytic Psychology, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, The Psychoanalytic Activist, and the book, Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2022).

Notable papers include “Being Railroaded” (Gradiva Award nomination, NAAP) and “The Personal is Political is Psychoanalytic,” both of which are frequently cited in the analytic literature and read in analytic training and professional study groups.

Leadership

Board Member, International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)

Member of Colloquium and Webinar Committees, IARPP

Chaired NIP’s Recruitment Committee (5-year term): organized and moderated recruitment events including annual Open House for prospective trainees.

Served as NIP’s Associate Director of Continuing Education (5-year term): organized and moderated 25 workshops with the country’s most influential psychoanalysts.

Press

Matt has been interviewed by:

The Washington Post, New York Magazine, TimeOut NY, The Guardian, Agence France-Presse, and Gold (a comedian website).

In Addition

Matt continues to read, write and study to deepen his skills and understanding of the change process.

Prior to establishing his private practice, he provided therapy at NIP’s outpatient treatment center, an Albert Einstein College of Medicine community mental health clinic in the Bronx, and a Harlem elementary school.

He works equally well with adults, children and teens.

He also provides couples counseling, clinical supervision, and leads a reading group.