About Tyler

My approach to therapy

I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor helping people make good on their potential.

This feels impossible when our lives are so relentlessly overwhelming—when we’re balancing work with creativity, or creativity with family, or family with work. We need time to slow down, and to reconnect with the thoughts and feelings always running in the background. That’s the heart of my approach.

Many of my clients find themselves overwhelmed trying to balance the many demands of their lives.

They may feel that, by trying to do everything, they aren’t living up to their expectations at anything.

I often hear that these high expectations weigh on my clients’ self-esteem and lead to depression.

I’m a young adult myself. I know how it feels to waste time in pointless work, and to feel like you’re just running out the clock. Early in my life, I found myself in the same position as many of my clients: unhappy and unfulfilled. Therapy set my life on a course that feels so much more satisfying, and it did that by giving me a kind of radical freedom: to say anything and everything I thought and felt, without shame or judgment.

What Therapy With Me Is (and isn’t) Like

I’m no guru.

I don’t have final answers.

I don’t give advice (there are enough self-help books for that), and I’m definitely not going to tell you to “just think positive.”

Our history influences our present: it shapes how we speak and sometimes even how our bodies feel. By bringing your history into awareness, you can discover what you want and need, and who you’d like to become. I use two forms of therapy—psychoanalytic therapy and experiential therapy—to help my clients explore their past and see how it affects their present.

I make no moral judgments. Absolutely nothing is off the table to talk about in sessions. That is the radical freedom I experienced, and I want you to experience it, too.

My Education and Background

I’m a graduate of Brooklyn College with an MA in Mental Health Counseling. Before starting my private practice, I spent several years working at a community clinic for people suffering from severe depression, trauma, and substance abuse. I’m politically engaged, and worked as an activist when not at the clinic. These days, I enjoy learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai. I’ve been in private practice since 2018, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.