About Tyler Dawneé Young, Therapist in Palm Desert

Finding the Right Therapist Shouldn’t Feel Like Another Thing to Just Push Through

Finding the right therapist can feel harder than it should be. Scrolling through endless profiles, reading words that sound reassuring but somehow they all start to blur together. You’re trying to figure out who actually understands what you’re dealing with and who just sounds good on paper. When you’re already exhausted, the last thing you want is to invest in someone who doesn’t get it.

This page exists so you can figure that out before you ever pick up the phone.

I'm Tyler Dawneé Young, LCSW — a therapist in Palm Desert, CA specializing in burnout, chronic stress, anxiety, and trauma in high-performing women. I offer EMDR online throughout California and Utah and in-person in Palm Desert.

The women I work with are capable, thoughtful, and quietly falling apart.

They're often the person everyone else relies on to keep things running. When burnout shows up, they're usually the last ones to name it — because from the outside, everything still looks fine. What they're actually experiencing is exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix, mental noise that won't quit, and a quiet creeping feeling that something is deeply wrong with them.

Nothing is wrong with them. That's what I want you to hear before anything else.

I care deeply about helping women recover from burnout so they can think clearly again, quiet the mental noise, feel more like themselves, and move through their lives with more steadiness— on their own terms, not terms they inherited.

I know what this actually feels like.

In 2023 I hit a wall.

I was carrying a caseload of 110 dialysis patients — people managing multiple chronic conditions, complex disabilities, end-of-life planning, and loss. My mom died. I was losing clients. Leadership made an already impossible situation worse. I was managing ADHD I'd been masking for years behind high-achievement and sheer willpower. And one morning I woke up and realized I genuinely hated getting up. I had stopped caring about work I used to find meaningful. Everything felt like obligation and nothing felt like mine.

That's burnout. Not the dramatic kind. The slow, competent, still-showing-up kind that nobody notices until you do.

I did my own work. EMDR changed things in a way that insight alone never had. I stopped being the caregiver for everyone around me. I found my way back to work that actually fits my values — which is how I ended up here, doing this specifically.

That shapes how I show up for you. Not as someone who studied burnout. As someone who has lived the specific version of it that high-achieving women live — and found a way through it.

What Working With Me Actually Looks Like

I'm direct. I'll name what I'm noticing. I'll ask the question you've been avoiding. I'm not going to let you spend fifty minutes describing your week and call it progress.

I want you to have at least one place where you can say exactly what you mean without managing how it lands for someone else. No performing capability. No softening the edges of your actual experience. No editing yourself for someone else's comfort.

A lot of the women I work with have spent their whole lives accommodating everyone else — their families, their workplaces, their relationships, the endless unwritten rules about how they're supposed to show up. Therapy with me isn't about coping better within a life that doesn't fit. It's about figuring out what actually fits — and building toward that instead.

My style is warm, direct, sometimes sarcastic, and I have a dark sense of humor. I take the work seriously. I don't take everything else seriously. There will probably be moments where we laugh — not because what you're carrying isn't heavy, but because sometimes that's the most honest response to being a human being trying to hold everything together.

The Official Stuff

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) — California & Utah

• California license # LCSW125524 | Utah license # 14250996- 3501

• Master of Social Work — University of New Hampshire

• EMDR Trained— EMDR Consulting, LLC

• ADHD Clinical Assessment Training— The Chicago Business School

• CAARS-2 + DIVA-5 + ADHD Self-assessment tools

• Specializing in burnout, chronic stress, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD

• Online therapy throughout California and Utah

• In-person sessions in Palm Desert, CA

If This Felt Like Someone Worth Talking to— Let’s Talk.

A free 15-minute consult is just a conversation. You'll get a sense of how I work, I'll get a sense of what's going on, and we'll both know pretty quickly whether this makes sense. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you that honestly and do my best to point you toward someone who is.

You can contact me at (760) 209-6511to schedule your consultation for therapy in California and Utah.

Not sure if you’re ready to reach out? Read what to expect from a first session or take the burnout assessment → here.