Taryn Smythe, ASW is a queer associate clinical social worker who is deeply committed to identity-affirming, trauma-informed practice. Taryn has developed her clinical skills across several contexts including universities, hospitals, and community mental health settings. They completed their most recent clinical experience at Sharp Cancer Centers, providing psychotherapy to cancer patients, survivors, and their care networks. Here, Taryn cultivated her passion for grief work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and psychodynamic techniques.
Coming from a social work background, Taryn brings a strengths-based and person-in-environment perspective to therapy, taking a collaborative approach that emphasizes a holistic view of clients and their inherent abilities.
Taryn is passionate about engaging in research-informed practice and practice-informed research. Their research areas of interest include the LGBTQ+ community, intimate partner violence, and radical social work praxis.
Taryn earned her BA in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her MSW from San Diego State University.