Background
Tyler A. Webster, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist whose therapeutic approach is both eclectic and tailored to individual client’s needs. Her approach begins from a humanistic stance and draws from psychoanalytic relational psychotherapy, and utilizes a wide variety of techniques related to ACT, mindfulness, self-compassion, and CBT
Dr. Webster earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, California. She has worked in school systems, medical settings, community mental health clinics, and assisted living facilities, providing both long-term and brief individual and couples therapy. Prior to her doctoral work in San Francisco, Dr. Webster earned a Juris Doctorate and Masters in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University.
Dr. Webster entered college at UCLA as a basketball player, and helped high school athletes transition to the more challenging world of collegiate athletics. Her time working within the UCLA Athletic Department sparked her passion for working with athletes.
Dr. Webster also currently serves as the Associate Athletic Director for Counseling & Sport Psychology for Santa Clara University Athletics. In this role, she works with all Division 1 programs on a team level to maximize performance and well-being, as well as serving as a clinician for individual student athlete support.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Webster’s areas of expertise include athletic culture, issues particularly relevant to athletes, men’s issues, transitional issues and life stressors, stigma and shame, anxiety, depression, and suicidality.
Dr. Webster is interested in issues related to identity, dimensions of culture which inform the development of identity, and the ways in which people make and find meaning in their lives.
Dr. Webster's dissertation study--No Pain, no gain: American football players' attitudes towards help-seeking and barriers to mental health service utilization--explored American football players' perceptions of mental health service utilization in order to unearth current barriers to service. The study explored the culture of football and its relation to the socialization of young men, as well as the stigmatization of mental health services within the athletic community.
Credentials & Professional Affiliations
California License #28372
Listed on the USOPC Mental Health Registry
American Psychological Association
Division 47 Exercise & Sports Psychology
Division 51 Society for the Psychological Study of Men & Masculinity
California Psychological Association
San Mateo County Psychological Association
Association for Applied Sport Psychology
Working toward CMPC certification