About David
David Tyler is a licensed professional counselor with more than 10 years of experience. He works in Tennessee and brings a calm, curious presence to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, career pressures, and relationship concerns. He aims to make it easier to speak honestly about hard feelings and confusing decisions.
He creates a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what matters most to them. Sessions focus on identifying personal strengths and using those strengths to meet real-life challenges.
Background and approach
David keeps the work grounded and practical while remaining compassionate and optimistic. Approaches are chosen to match a person’s needs rather than follow a single formula. He draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, and narrative perspectives to help reframe problems and practice different responses.
Mindfulness and existential themes also appear when they fit the work. David helps people address a wide range of issues including grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, and career transitions. He also supports those coping with body image, attachment and abandonment issues, caregiving strain, and recovery from separation or divorce.
The overall aim is to build practical skills, reduce overwhelming thinking, and restore a sense of agency. He encourages small, manageable steps and provides steady support while clients try new ways of coping and relating.
Approach and online care that fit your life
David often uses client-centered work to help people feel heard and understood. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping clients name their priorities so they can make clearer choices. Cognitive behavioral ideas are also common in his sessions and involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different responses to reduce anxiety or improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. He works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Together the client and therapist check what’s working and adjust the plan as progress happens.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practicing new skills. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Chat and text let people keep regular contact, track progress, and fit support into busy days. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and build momentum without lots of travel or time off work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Missouri
- Languages
- English