Tyler Schmitt LPC, CTP

Together, we’ll work on calming your body’s stress response, challenging unhelpful thought patterns, and gradually facing the situations anxiety has taught you to avoid. My approach draws on evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based strategies, tailored to your pace and goals. Whether you’re dealing with generalized worry, panic, social anxiety, or stress that feels overwhelming, you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Together, we’ll explore what’s weighing on you, whether that’s work pressure, fatherhood, relationships, identity, loss, or questions about who you want to be. We’ll build practical skills for managing emotions, communicating more clearly, and making changes that last. My approach is direct, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based methods, tailored to your goals. You don’t need to have it all figured out to start. Reaching out is a sign of strength.

I work with clients at a pace that feels safe and manageable. We’ll start by building stability and coping skills, like grounding, emotion regulation, and ways to calm your body’s alarm system. From there, we’ll make sense of how the trauma has shaped your thoughts, relationships, and sense of safety. My approach is collaborative and trauma-informed, so you’ll never be pushed to share more than you’re comfortable with. Healing is possible, and you don’t have to go through it alone.

Sometimes the hardest struggles aren’t about a specific problem. They’re about meaning, purpose, freedom, loss, or the uneasy sense that life isn’t what you expected it to be. My existential approach treats these questions as a natural part of being human, not as symptoms to fix. Together, we’ll explore what matters most to you, where you feel stuck or out of alignment with your values, and how to make choices that feel authentic, even when life is uncertain.

You are the expert on your own life. My person-centered approach is built on that belief. I offer a warm, genuine, and nonjudgmental space where you can be fully yourself, without pressure to say the right thing or become someone you’re not. I won’t tell you what to do or hand you a rigid plan. Instead, I’ll listen closely, reflect back what I hear, and trust your ability to find your own direction. When people feel truly heard and accepted, they often gain clarity, self-compassion, confidence.

So much of who we are, and what we struggle with, takes shape in our relationships. My relational approach uses the connection between us as a window into how you relate to others. Together, we’ll notice the patterns that show up, like how you seek closeness, protect yourself, or avoid conflict, and where they came from. Our relationship becomes a safe place to try something new: speaking honestly, being understood, and repairing when things feel off.