Tyler Schaus

As a queer, transguy, and adoptive parent to a neurospicy child, I prioritize the importance of seeing people as complex, nuanced, and unique beings. I strive to keep my practice flexible, authentic, holistic, and avoid 'one size fits all' approaches that attempt to fit folx into little boxes. Life has probably done this enough already, so you deserve a space that will see you for who you are and your ways of being in the world.

Offering in-person & remote (online/phone) counselling sessions for individuals, couples, and parents/guardians with areas of focus in:

• ADH (I don't include the 2nd D, as I don't view it as a 'disorder')
• Anxiety
• Autism 
• Gender Expression
• Gender Identity
• Life Transitions
• Sexuality
• Stress
• Trauma. 

Through a person-centered, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and collabortaive approach, I provide a space for you to explore what matters most to you, where you are the expert in your life and I am the guide to support you with your goals. 

Support for parents/guardians who are navigating their child's:

• Gender Expression
• Gender Identity
• Neurodiversity and/or 
• Sexuality

A confidential and non-judgemental space is created where you can process through various emotions and thoughts that arise and you can gain the skills and tools that will support and empower you to show up as the parent/guardian you are wanting to be. 

I believe an important part of healing is humor, it has supported me through many challenges and life transitions and I have seen how it can also strengthen the therapeutic relationship when woven into sessions. I aim to create and provide a space where you feel seen, heard, supported, and empowered to make connections and continue to grow and heal.

I want to acknowledge the inequity that exists in who is able to access counselling services and how inaccessbile it is to equity seeking groups. With this in mind I do hold a small number of sessions on a sliding scale for those folx who identify as 2STI+/LGBA and/or IBPOC. There is also an option for those folx who can pay more to 'pay it forward' with a little extra, which is put toward accessible fee sessions.