A native of France, Dr. Matip, arrived in this country as a young adult and attended Concordia College in Bronxville on a soccer scholarship. She also attended Long Island University, as well as Columbia University, where she completed a master’s degree in public health, concentrating on health policy and management.

Dr. Matip earned her medical degree from the State University of New York at Brooklyn College of Medicine and completed her psychiatry residency at SUNY-Downstate, located in Brooklyn. Dr. Matip completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Cecile Matip, who is board-certified as both an adult and child/adolescent psychiatrist, has returned to New York to provide care after living abroad for two years while providing psychiatric consultants for a telemedicine company.