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Kaitlyn Schuler
About
My name is Dr. Kaitlyn Schuler, and I'm a licensed clinical psychologist living in Tampa, Florida. I completed my doctoral training in clinical psychology with a focus on assessing and treating suicidality and co-occurring conditions using evidence based approaches. My approach is grounded in what psychologists call collaborative empiricism — which is a formal way of saying we figure things out together. You bring your lived experience; I bring assessment tools and knowledge of what the research says; and we examine the evidence together. I’m glad you’re here and look forward to meeting you!
Throughout much of my work as a clinician and researcher thus far I have observed people hiding their true thoughts, feelings and experiences because being fully seen has felt too costly or unsafe. Many autistic adults know this pattern intimately — years of masking, and of being misread by people including sometimes the very providers they turned to for help. That's why this work matters to me. I'm continually inspired by the insight and resilience of the neurodivergent adults with whom I have worked, and I consider it a privilege to help people replace years of unanswered questions with genuine self-understanding and appreciation.
I believe people are the experts on their own lives, and effective psychological care protects their dignity and agency. In practice, that means an evaluation with me is something we do together. I listen closely to your experiences and take them seriously as evidence — alongside the formal testing data. Your strengths, skills, and resilience are just as diagnostically meaningful as areas of growth. My goal is for you to leave not with a label and a list of deficits, but with an appreciation of how your mind works that will help you build a life that fits you.
