About Tyler

Hello and welcome!

Regardless of whether your making the decision to pursue therapy for the first time or you are in the process of finding a new therapist, this is a big step. There are many great therapists in the Denver area, so thank you for being willing to learn some more about my practice.

I’ll start with a little about my personal background first because I believe that can also be important in deciding if I would be a good fit for you therapeutically. I grew up just outside of Seattle, WA for the first 18 years of my life. I was raised a diehard Seahawks and Mariners fan, and my allegiance still rings true even after leaving Seattle over a decade ago. I drink coffee like someone who was raised in Seattle, but, shockingly, I didn’t start drinking coffee till my first semester of college when I for some reason thought I wanted to study accounting first thing in the morning.

My undergrad was in Christian Ministries from Azusa Pacific University. After graduating in 2016, I moved abroad to Istanbul, Turkey where I spent three years working with Middle Eastern refugees. It was during this time that I started questioning how I could gain the skills to work with people that were going through trauma and abuse. This is what lead me to start attending Denver Seminary in 2019 to pursue my MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

Therapeutically, my approach is client-centered and integrative. The main modalities that I work out of are Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and attachment. I am someone who loves to laugh, and I find being able to bring humor into the therapeutic relationship can make discussing the issues that bring my clients in for care far more approachable.

My outlook on counseling is heavily influenced by my own life experiences and perspective on hardship. Mainly, that people have an incredible ability to heal and grow, not despite, but directly out of their traumatic experiences. I look at therapy as one of many tools that can be utilized to help people grow and progress. I have seen this in my own life and many of current and former clients' lives.

While my faith is an essential part of my life, I do not require, nor do I expect that to be true for my clients. For some of my clients, faith and spirituality is a major component of our work together, and for some it is not touched on at all. I enjoy and feel comfortable working with clients from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.