Dr. Danielle Magaldi

Associate Professor at the City University of New York, Dr. Magaldi approaches therapy with significant clinical expertise and deep experience that is informed by her research and scholarship. She has tremendous faith in what psychotherapy can do to change lives and an abiding belief that good psychotherapy helps us understand and resolve the conflicts and challenges of modern life and relationships. Dr. Magaldi cares deeply about improving the lives of her patients.

Patients find her curious, thoughtful, warm, and skilled. They are often working in any number of demanding, high-performing careers from tech to finance to the art world, and they value that the therapy appreciates drive and ambition while helping patients better understand the forces at work within themselves so they can best use their talents. Her work with couples considers dynamics, attachment, and relational patterns and is also practical and behavioral, helping couples decrease conflict and build skills toward a more dynamic, fulfilling, and connected relationship. With students, she works on negotiating the emotional and academic landscape of high school and college. Dr. Magaldi also works with religious patients who want to realize the benefits of psychotherapy integrated with their beliefs.  

She infuses current findings in the field into her clinical practice, conducting research on technology’s impact on human relationships and intimacy. Her research considers how attention and focus are changing in an era of social media, and the interrupted stages of child and teenage development in the wake of Covid. A tenured professor, she teaches graduate-level educators, mentors and provides clinical supervision for clinicians, has published dozens of articles, facilitates a research lab investigating relevant questions for the field, and presents internationally on her research and clinical work.