Tyler Webster
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- Title:
- Associate Athletic Director, Counseling & Sport Psychology
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- Phone:
- 408-554-7846
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- Email:
- twebster@scu.edu
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- Year:
- Second
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- College:
- UCLA '05, Pepperdine '09, California School of Professional Psychology '15
Dr. Tyler Webster is in her second year as the assistant athletic director for counseling and sport psychology at Santa Clara.
Webster, who was hired in October 2020, is a licensed clinical psychologist in California with advanced training and experience in working with athletes.
Prior to her role at Santa Clara, Webster served as the director of student wellness at Notre Dame de Namur University where she oversaw both the Counseling and Health Departments. While at NDNU, Webster served as the NCAA appointed mental health professional for their Division II programs. She provided individual and team services at NDNU and provided consultation services for athletic coaches and administrators.
Webster entered UCLA as a basketball player and earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and another in American literature and culture. She went on to Pepperdine University where she earned a Juris Doctorate, a Master's in alternative dispute resolution, and a Master's in psychology.
Webster then returned to the Bay Area to develop a sports consulting company to serve local athletes. She earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology (Psy.D.) at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco. While in school, Webster’s dissertation (“No Pain, No Gain: American football players’ attitudes towards help-seeking and barriers to mental health service utilization) focused on unearthing barriers to mental health service utilization in a collegiate athletic population.
Webster's clinical interests include athletic culture and working with student-athletes, men’s issues, stigma and shame, anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Additionally, she is interested in ways people make and find meaning in their lives, and dimensions of culture which inform the development of identity.
Webster is also listed in the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s Mental Health Registry to serve Team USA athletes. She is a Bay Area native and graduated from Menlo School in Atherton. Webster and her husband, Matt, have two children, Patrick and Nora.