Tyson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin and Oregon as well as a nationally Board-Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC). Tyson’s career in mental health service delivery began in 2004. Over the past 21 years, Tyson has provided case management and direct therapy services; clinical, programmatic and licensure-oriented supervision and managerial/directorial oversight over multiple mental health departments across both private for-profit and public non-profit organizations. Tyson’s leadership style is steeped in the values of integrity, initiative, psychological flexibility, humility, humor and vision. As a leader, he regularly seeks to balance precision and gentleness for the staff and teams he oversees.
Tyson first began working with first-episode psychosis programming under the Early Assessment and Support Alliance (EASA) while at Mid-Columbia Center for Living in Hood River, OR. More recently, Tyson has been helping to oversee the PROPs (Promoting Recovery from Early Onset Psychosis) program at Journey Mental Health Center in Madison, WI. PROPs is one of the most established and eldest first episode psychosis in Wisconsin.
Outside of work Tyson is a parent, musician, mountain biker and lover of the outdoors.