About Me

Hi! I am Kyle deVries (they/he), a queer nonbinary multi-racial therapist. I think that therapists inherently bring their identities and experiences into the counseling relationship and that can be an important aspect of finding the right fit. Here is some information about me and my life experiences that may help you determine if we would organically understand each other!

I have been diagnosed with Autism, ADHD, CPTSD, and live with some chronic health conditions. These components have directly impacted my quality of life and the ways that I interact with several systems, though I only became aware of some of these in adulthood. I am a second-generation immigrant who spent a majority of my life in the American mid-west (OK and TX), I was acutely aware that I didn’t often see people who shared identities with me outside of very intentional spaces.

My Approach

To help you understand what working with me might feel like, I will share what I have done with some of my current and past clients. A typical session looks like a brief check in about wellbeing and recent events, depending on your specific needs and goals we may do a grounding or mindfulness practice, then orient to long term goals or current life events. How we address about your concerns varies based on what is effective for you, I aim to adapt to what you find is helpful, and a consistent thread across all clients is unpacking the ways that systems impact you, building awareness of our bodies signals, and making sure you feel present in our relationship.

My goal and hope is that you feel connected, understood, challenged, and accepted in our relationship and that fosters tangible changes in the ways that you experience and move through the world!

Additionally, some of the types of therapy that I use are:

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills to support general mental health and trauma

  • Prolonged Exposure Therapy for trauma, anxiety, and phobias that helps your body learn that some triggers are not dangerous

  • Narrative Therapy to help process past events and patterns, right size self-accountability/blame, and contextualize current experiences

  • Somatic Experiencing to rebuild connection to your body and needs, build skills with fight/flight/freeze/fawn, and better cope with pain or discomfort

Areas of Competence

I dedicate myself to having a high degree of training and knowledge surround the topics and intersections of: neurodivergence, chronic health concerns, complex trauma, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and immigrant experiences. My commitment to this takes the form of:

  • Taking specialized courses to offer you care that actually meets your needs

  • Listening to lived experiences so you don’t have to educate me about common components

  • Learning about symptoms and conditions to better advocate with your doctors/teachers/employer

  • Reading current research to find effective evidence based ways to support you

I am a Nationally Certified Counselor™ and a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist!

Outside of Work

To help to get to know me as a whole human here are some of hobbies and snippets of my life. All of the photos of nature and landscape on this website come from hikes over years; grounding and mindful movement is something I actively seek out. I’m an avid video, board, and table-top roleplaying gamer and put in absurd amounts of hours in all of these. I consume books, audiobooks, videos, and podcasts on a regular basis with a tendency towards my special interests of fantasy, sci-fi, philosophy, sociology, and (surprise surprise) psychology. Music is a big part of how I spend my day and I am partial to midwest emo, breakcore, bossa nova, and jazz.