About Tyler
Tyler Cole is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting struggles, and life changes. He brings a calm, practical approach to sessions and focuses on clear goals that matter to each person. He uses a strengths-based outlook and works with clients to identify values and priorities.
Tyler draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and still move toward what matters. He also uses trauma-focused tools and motivational interviewing to build forward momentum.
Background and approach
Tyler has spent a decade in clinical practice and holds LPC and Licensed Mental Health Counselor credentials. He works from Washington and conducts sessions in English. His experience includes helping people facing addiction, relationship problems, self-esteem concerns, parenting strain, and complex grief.
In sessions he keeps things down-to-earth and flexible. Conversations focus on practical steps and small experiments that fit day-to-day life. He emphasizes joint problem-solving so clients leave with clear next steps.
People who choose Tyler can expect to set short-term goals, try tailored techniques between sessions, and revise plans as needs change. His practice blends solution-focused strategies with trauma-aware care so clients can build coping skills and rebuild a sense of control.
How Tyler’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and emotions without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. EMDR is a trauma-informed method that uses focused attention and processing to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and reactions, helping people feel less overwhelmed by past events. Motivational Interviewing is a short-term, collaborative style that helps build motivation and clear steps for change, especially for addiction and ambivalence about goals.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Tyler will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest approaches to try. He often blends methods and adjusts plans as progress and needs become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and school schedules while keeping therapy practical and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, California, Washington, Florida, Oregon
- Languages
- English