Dr. Kyle Schultz is a licensed clinical psychologist who has worked as a therapist, educator, and lecturer in various settings with a diverse array of people. He received his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and M.Ed. in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Dr. Schultz joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 as a practicum seminar leader, and joined the faculty in the fall of 2014. He teaches courses in counseling interventions, advanced ethics, practicum, sociocultural issues in counseling, basic counseling skills, human sexuality, and career counseling. In addition to working as a full-time lecturer in the professional counseling program, he also owns his own private psychotherapy practice, seeing individuals with issues related to sexuality, relationships, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.
Dr. Schultz is dedicated to helping students understand the many theoretical and clinical developments in psychoanalysis since the days of Freud by teaching up-to-date research on psychoanalysis. Dr. Schultz also recently co-facilitated a group on working with underserved populations from a relational psychoanalytic perspective. He is a member of the Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and will be joining the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis in Philadelphia (IRPP) for analytic training in the fall of 2017.