Guy Maytal, MD
Psychiatrist · Speaker and Educator · Healthcare AdvisorI work with adults facing cancer and other serious or life-altering medical illnesses, and with the loved ones who care for them. Through speaking, teaching, and advisory work, I bring the same commitment to a larger scale.
Psychiatric care for adults facing cancer or another serious illness, by secure telehealth in New York and New Jersey.
Clinical Practice → Clinical careCare for loved ones as patients in their own right, centered on their own wellbeing and needs.
For loved ones → SpeakingKeynotes, teaching, podcasts and media conversations for clinicians, leaders and broader audiences.
Speaking & Teaching → AdvisoryIndependent clinical and strategic guidance on models of care, integration, quality and leadership.
Advisory Work →Serious illness can change how a person understands themselves, relates to the people they love, works, makes decisions, and imagines the future.
My approach to psychiatric care begins with understanding that whole context—not only a person's symptoms. From there, we can determine what kind of care may alleviate suffering, support the person in engaging more fully in everyday life, and help them remain connected to what matters most.
One commitment, at three scales: the person in the room, the audience in the hall, and the organization that shapes the care.
Psychiatric care for adults facing cancer and other serious or life-altering medical illnesses—and for loved ones who care for them.
Explore Clinical Practice →Survivorship and the psychological, emotional, and existential dimensions of living with serious illness. And a broader question: what makes it possible to live well through change?
Explore Speaking & Teaching →Independent clinical and strategic guidance for healthcare leaders and organizations working to strengthen clinical quality, develop models of care, and navigate growth or change.
Explore Advisory Work →These experiences may alter how a person feels, thinks, relates to others, and understands what is possible—but they never tell the whole story of who that person is.Guy Maytal, MD
Possibility persists, even when control does not.
Uncertainty is a background condition of life. At times something brings it to the foreground: a diagnosis, a loss, a sudden turn no one saw coming. Much of my work is about what helps a person meet that moment.
For more than two decades, I have cared for patients, taught and mentored clinicians, and built programs across psychiatry, cancer care, and integrated behavioral health. Through roles at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, and Forge Health, four commitments have guided my work: excellent clinical care, meeting people where they already are, education and mentorship, and the advancement of knowledge.
Cancer survivors often need care from multiple specialists—yet many do not know these specialists exist, and clinicians working across institutions may have few opportunities to connect. The Survivorship Society brings clinicians together across specialties and institutions to strengthen the care available during and after cancer.
Survivorship is not limited to life after treatment. It includes living through treatment, adjusting after treatment ends, and living with cancer over time.
Whether you're seeking psychiatric care, inviting me to speak or teach, or looking for support with strategy and program design.
For adults in New York or New Jersey seeking psychiatric care related to cancer, serious illness, survivorship, or caring for someone they love.
Request a consultation →For conferences, educational programs, leadership gatherings, podcasts, interviews, or other media conversations.
Invite me to speak →For healthcare leaders and organizations seeking an outside clinical perspective.
Make an advisory inquiry →I work with adults navigating illness, uncertainty, and significant change. This includes people facing cancer and other serious or life-altering medical conditions, and loved ones who care for them.
Some seek help with anxiety, depression, sleep, or the practical and emotional demands of treatment. Others are trying to find their footing as illness changes their relationships, identity, daily life, or sense of the future.
Care begins with understanding the whole person and their circumstances, then deciding together what may help.
Survivorship is not limited to life after treatment. It includes living through treatment, adjusting after treatment ends, and living with cancer over time. Each phase can bring uncertainty, changes in identity and relationships, fear of recurrence or progression, and questions about how to move forward.
My work addresses the psychiatric, emotional, and existential dimensions of survivorship while remaining attentive to each person's broader medical care and life.
Caring for someone with a serious illness can bring uncertainty, responsibility, grief, and profound changes in one's life—often alongside the demands of work, family, and personal health.
I work with loved ones as patients in their own right, addressing anxiety, exhaustion, grief, or changes in their sense of self amid caregiving. Their care is not simply in service of someone else's treatment; it is centered on their wellbeing, concerns, and needs.
Reach out through the Clinical Consultation form and share a little about what brings you here. No need for detailed medical history yet—we'll cover that together.
Care begins with a psychiatric consultation—to understand you, your circumstances, and what may help.
Treatment may include medication management and, when appropriate, individual psychotherapy—depending on your needs and what we determine together is most appropriate.
When appropriate and with your permission, I collaborate with oncologists, primary care clinicians, therapists, and others involved in your care so that recommendations reflect both your psychiatric needs and your medical circumstances.
Cancer survivors often need care from multiple specialists—yet many do not know these specialists exist, and clinicians working across institutions may have few opportunities to connect. I am the founding physician of The Survivorship Society, created to bring clinicians together across specialties and institutions. As the Society develops, it aims to help patients and loved ones better understand and access the range of care that may support them during and after cancer.
Bringing clinicians together across specialties and institutions, so patients and loved ones can find the full range of care that may support them.
Appointments are offered by secure telehealth to adults located in New York and New Jersey.
I do not participate in insurance networks. I would be glad to provide documentation that you may submit to your insurance plan for possible out-of-network reimbursement. Coverage and reimbursement vary by plan and cannot be guaranteed.
Adults age 18 and older facing cancer or another serious or life-altering medical illness, during or after treatment, and loved ones who care for them. Loved ones are seen as patients in their own right.
Care begins with a psychiatric consultation. Treatment may include medication management and, when appropriate, individual psychotherapy, depending on your needs and what we decide together. With your permission, I can collaborate with your oncologist, primary care clinician, therapist, and others involved in your care.
Because care here is self-pay, fees and anticipated costs will be discussed with you before any care is provided. You have the right to receive a written Good Faith Estimate of expected charges before receiving care, and you may request one before scheduling.
The practice and its forms are not set up for urgent concerns. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911. For immediate emotional or crisis support, call or text 988.
The questions that arise during illness and change do not belong only in the examination room. They matter to patients and families, to the clinicians who care for them, and to the leaders responsible for shaping the systems in which that care occurs.
I speak and teach about cancer, serious illness, and survivorship; the broader human challenge of living well through uncertainty and change; and the work of building more thoughtful, effective healthcare systems. Whether addressing clinicians, healthcare leaders, or a broader audience, I aim to help people see possibilities they may not have seen before.
Serious illness rewrites more than the body. It can unsettle identity, strain relationships, and quietly narrow a person's sense of what the future still holds. I speak and teach on the psychiatric and existential terrain of cancer and serious illness—from diagnosis through survivorship, recurrence, and the end of life—and on what patients, families, and the clinicians who care for them need in order to meet that terrain well.
Uncertainty is a background condition of life—present, but rarely noticed. At times, something brings it to the foreground: a diagnosis, a loss, a sudden turn no one saw coming. I speak on what it means to face uncertainty once it can no longer be ignored—how to hold fear and hope at once, how perspective shifts when the ground beneath us moves, and how possibility persists even when control does not.
The quality of care is shaped long before a clinician enters the room—by who can gain access, what is measured, how decisions are made, and whether clinicians have the support they need. I speak and teach about translating clinical values into the structures of everyday care: integrating behavioral health into medical settings, building programs that reach patients where they already are, and leading clinical teams through complexity and change.
Uncertainty stops being an abstraction and becomes a question—about what matters, and what meaning we choose to create for our lives.Guy Maytal, MD
Keynote Speaker · Conference for Global Transformation
Symposium Chair · American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting
Writer and Co-Leader · Four-part webinar with Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver Podcast
Keynote Speaker · Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology Annual Conference
Keynote Speaker · MATIO Kids Kicking Cancer Annual Conference
Faculty Member and Lecturer · Weill Cornell Medicine Open Medical Institute Seminars · Salzburg, Austria
Guest · Blood Cancer United podcast Treating Blood Cancers · February 20, 2025
Cancer survivorship crosses specialties, institutions, and professions—but the people doing this work often have few opportunities to learn from one another. I am the founding physician of The Survivorship Society, created to bring clinicians together across those boundaries, exchange knowledge, and strengthen the care available to people living during and after cancer.
Clinicians learning from one another, across specialties and institutions.
If you are planning a conference, educational program, leadership gathering, or media conversation, let's talk about what would serve your audience best.
Independent clinical and strategic guidance for healthcare leaders and organizations working to strengthen clinical quality, develop models of care, and navigate growth or change.
My perspective comes from more than two decades of experience working inside healthcare organizations. I help leaders clarify what they are trying to build, understand what is getting in the way, and translate clinical aims into practical structures, standards, and decisions.
Clarifying whom a program serves, what outcomes it aims to achieve, and how care should be structured to deliver on that promise.
Bringing psychiatric and behavioral health services into the medical and community settings where people already receive care.
Building practical standards, measures, and review processes that help organizations validate and improve the care they provide.
Helping clinicians strengthen their judgment and supporting clinical leaders as they guide teams through growth, complexity, and change.
I begin by understanding the organization as it actually operates—not only as it appears on an organizational chart or in a written policy. That means listening to leaders and clinicians, examining workflows and available data, and identifying where clinical aims and everyday practice have come apart.
I work collaboratively and speak candidly. My role is to ask difficult questions, bring an outside perspective, and offer clear, practical recommendations. The organization's leaders make the decisions; my job is to help them see the choices and their consequences more clearly.
How do we build healthcare systems that work—for the people who depend on them and the people who deliver the care?Guy Maytal, MD
My perspective has been shaped from inside healthcare systems, where clinical ideas must work within the realities of people, operations, resources, and competing priorities.
At Massachusetts General Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, I led outpatient psychiatric services and built programs integrating mental healthcare into cancer and medical settings. At Forge Health, I lead clinical care across a multi-state behavioral healthcare organization, with responsibility for clinical quality, care models, clinician development, measurement, and program growth.
Let's talk about where an outside perspective may be useful.
Advisory work is undertaken independently and does not represent or imply sponsorship by any affiliated institution, current or past.
I have spent my career working with people during periods of illness, uncertainty, and profound change. These experiences may alter how a person feels, thinks, relates to others, and understands what is possible—but they never tell the whole story of who that person is.
My work begins with listening to understand each person in the context of their health, relationships, responsibilities, values, and hopes. Whether I am caring for a patient, teaching a clinician, or working with a healthcare organization, I aim to bring clarity to complexity, work toward thoughtful decisions together, and help create possibilities that may not yet be visible.
Four commitments have shaped the work I have chosen and how I have gone about it—across clinical care, teaching, and healthcare leadership.
I believe care should reflect both the best available evidence and the person in front of me—not simply a diagnosis, but someone with a particular history, relationships, values, and hopes.
Illness can make it hard to seek psychiatric help elsewhere. I have worked to bring that care into the settings where people already receive medical care and where they live their lives, rather than asking them to find their way to it.
Every clinician I have trained or mentored allows good care to reach far more patients than I could on my own. Helping clinicians build knowledge, develop good clinical judgment, and grow in their leadership is among the most satisfying contributions I make to patient care.
Medicine still has much to learn about how people live with illness and uncertainty. I have tried to contribute to that ongoing inquiry—through research, teaching, and the exchange of ideas across institutions and specialties.
After graduating from Harvard College and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, I completed my psychiatry training at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, followed by fellowship training in psycho-oncology and psychosomatic medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital. These experiences shaped my enduring interest in the intersection of psychiatric care, serious medical illness, and the larger healthcare system.
Over the years, I have cared for patients, taught and mentored clinicians, and built clinical programs at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, NewYork-Presbyterian, and Weill Cornell Medicine. My work has included leading outpatient psychiatric services, integrating mental healthcare into cancer and medical settings, and helping clinicians across disciplines care for people facing serious illness.
Today, I serve as Chief Medical Officer of Forge Health, where I lead clinical care across a multi-state behavioral healthcare organization. I also remain a member of the clinical faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine and continue to care for patients, teach, speak, and advise healthcare leaders and organizations.
Alongside my career in medicine, I spent more than 17 years leading transformational seminars with Landmark Worldwide. That work deepened my understanding of how language, listening, responsibility, and relationships can shape what people see as possible for themselves and others—an understanding that has shaped how I practice medicine, approach patient care, and think about change within healthcare systems.
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For adults in New York or New Jersey seeking psychiatric care related to cancer, serious illness, survivorship, or the experience of caring for someone they love.
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Invite Me to Speak or Teach →For healthcare leaders and organizations seeking an outside clinical perspective on models of care, integration, quality, measurement, or leadership development.
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Guy Maytal, MD
Email: guy@guymaytalmd.com
Mailing address: 954 Lexington Ave #254, New York, NY 10021
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