About Bobby
Therapy is partly about learning to hear your own life more clearly.
I’m Bobby Matoney, a New York psychotherapist and LMHC-D. I offer thoughtful, LGBTQIA+ affirming care for adults navigating anxiety, depression, substance use, identity, relationships, grief, family dynamics, spirituality, and questions of meaning.
Before the therapy room
Creativity was my first way of understanding people.
Before becoming a therapist, I trained and worked as a musical theater actor. That world taught me to pay attention to story, subtext, contradiction, longing, and the roles we learn to play for other people.
My study of human development gave that curiosity a clinical home. Today, the intersection of creativity and psychology still shapes how I listen. I’m interested not only in what happened to you, but in the meaning you made from it and the person you had to become.
Education + community
Clinical training grounded in human development and community care.
I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development and a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Brooklyn College. I also proudly serve as a Senior Mental Health Counselor at GMHC.
Working for GMHC, the world’s first HIV/AIDS service organization, I’m proud to be part of our community’s response to HIV and AIDS while providing care, advocacy, and support through mental health and substance use services. That legacy keeps my clinical work grounded in dignity, cultural humility, and the realities people carry beyond the therapy room.
My work also includes substance use counseling. I draw from evidence-based approaches while finding flexible and creative ways to understand the role substance use plays in a person’s life. We look beyond the behavior itself to the emotions, relationships, identity, trauma, pleasure, shame, coping, and community experiences that may surround it, without reducing anyone to a diagnosis.
How I work
Insight matters. So does what you do with it.
Our work together is collaborative, active, and solution-focused. We’ll respect the emotions and reactions that make sense in the context of your life, without assuming that validation means remaining stuck inside them.
Therapy also has direction. Together, we’ll set goals, try coping skills, learn from what works, and use psychoeducation to make confusing patterns more understandable. We can look backward for meaning while continuing to move forward with intention.
I think of the therapy room as a safe rehearsal studio. It’s a place to practice naming a need, setting a boundary, tolerating discomfort, responding differently, or letting yourself be seen. Then we take what we’ve practiced and apply it in the real world, where the deeper goal isn’t to perform a better version of yourself. It’s to show up more authentically in your own life.
Currently accepting new clients
Start with a conversation.
A free 15-minute phone consultation gives us a chance to discuss your goals, how I work, and whether we may be a good fit.
Scheduling: Monday through Thursday after 6 PM, with limited daytime options. Inquire for current availability. I respond to inquiries within 72 hours.