> 01 — ABOUT
Tunde
Aideyan, PhD
LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST · RESEARCHER · LECTURER · WRITER
I am a generalist psychologist working primarily with adults, with a broad repertoire of clinical skills including psychotherapy, brief interventions, psychological assessment, and diagnostic interviewing. My clinical experience is similarly broad, with placements in healthcare clinics, academic research teams, specialty clinics such as a memory and aging program, and private practice. A sizable portion of my background has been in community mental health, so accessibility, chronic mental distress, complex mental health challenges, and systemic and sociocultural factors are central to how I work as a clinician. I utilize an integrative approach in my clinical work, drawing from an eclectic collection of clinical philosophies, while emphasizing the whole person across body, feelings, intellect, spirit, and sociocultural context.
I currently hold a small caseload at Dana Behavioral Health, a private practice in the greater Boston area.
Licensed Psychologist · Commonwealth of Massachusetts · PSY10001226 ↗My ambitions are oriented toward industry — building and studying products at the intersection of mental health, behavioral science, and technology. This is less a pivot than a return. My first roles out of college were applied, data-driven positions, and their core responsibilities — research design, quantitative analysis, and translating findings into decisions — are the very skills I went on to deepen throughout my academic and clinical training.
A clinical research internship at Pear Therapeutics placed me on a translational and clinical research team inside the digital mental health landscape, giving me a direct view of how commercial operations move science toward real-world scale. I've come to regard the commercial environment as one of the most powerful engines for innovation — and the place where I can best apply my skills to advance the mental health ecosystem. My aim is to move outcomes that can feel unreachable: easing the escalating burden of mental distress and dismantling long-standing structural barriers to consistent, high-quality, accessible care.
Retinal Image Analysis for Alzheimer's Disease Screening — an internal product-viability whitepaper for Pear Therapeutics (Pear CRQM) evaluating an AI-driven retinal screening approach, mapping clinical validation pathways and regulatory considerations. View whitepaper →
Inquiry refers to my work conducting research, teaching, and academic writing, and my formal academic training. I have extensive and broad research experience across the behavioral and health sciences, and consider myself a generalist researcher — skilled and experienced across quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches. My toolkit spans statistical programming (R, Python, SPSS), software for systematic review, thematic coding software (NVivo), and direct clinical research roles, including work with an MGH team studying virtual reality mental health interventions and the RTI International epidemiological study of mental and substance use disorders. I am currently a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University, where my primary courses are Community Psychology and History and Systems of Psychology.
I've been stimulated by writing much of my life — including completing a minor in English alongside my undergraduate degree — even if I'm not yet as prolifically published as I'd like to be. I draw on my clinical and academic experience to write essays that prompt discourse on psychology, mental health, and human relations. I always strive for effective, clear, engaging, and persuasive communication, whether in writing, presentations, or just everyday conversations, and am very enriched by thought-provoking and erudite conversations. That same appetite for a good exchange of ideas led me to starting #rtbth, a podcast I co-host with a close college friend covering a wide range of cultural, societal, and scientific topics. Along with my clinical and professional priorities, I aim to write and publish articles, and podcast to express my proclivities for communication, clarify my thinking around complex, zeitgeisty topics and stay in dialogue with a broad range of people.
As the child of Nigerian immigrants, I was exposed to two very different cultures while growing up. At home I ate foods and practiced traditions relative to my parents' native cultures, but at school and many other areas of my life, I was exposed to everyday American society. I was amply observant during these years and was able to pick up on many cultural distinctions at a young age. Because of these experiences, I often contemplated my actions and the actions of the people around me and was very curious about the underlying processes of human psychology. Over time, I developed a habit of internally questioning my own behaviors, and those of my family members and peers. Since then, those inquiries have expanded and evolved into a profound interest in human behavior, emotions, and thinking, and ultimately my current professional role as a psychologist.
As a licensed psychologist, I combine an analytical mindset — for synthesizing information and uncovering important insights — with the empathy and interpersonal skills to build meaningful relationships with patients, stakeholders, and communities. My work spans three fields — clinical mental health, technology, and psychedelics — and I have a combined 10+ years experience across industry, clinical, and academic settings. I am optimistic about the potential of technology to innovate and restructure the mental health ecosystem and its infrastructure; I believe psychedelics are driving significant societal progress such as in policy, personal exploration, spirituality, and, most urgently, mental health treatment. These two developing innovations are poised to reshape mental health, offering real hope against a global burden of psychological suffering that has long seemed intractable. My ambition is to drive progress and transform how we understand, treat, and honor mental health and psychological suffering. Community mental health, progress and innovation, the interpersonal process in psychotherapy, and social connection as a critical factor for human flourishing, are the threads that guide how I approach my work.