Ty Mansfield

Ty Mansfield received his master's and a doctorate in marriage and family therapy and has a practice in Provo, Utah, specializing in sexual health and work with sexual and gender minorities. He is also an adjunct instructor in the School of Family Life and Religious Education at BYU. Ty his undergraduate work in Asian Studies and has been actively practicing mindfulness meditation for over twelve years and is a certified mindfulness teacher. He has also been actively cultivating space for more mindful listening in the area of conflicting views on sexuality and gender for the last decade through his work with North Star International and the Reconciliation and Growth Project. Ty is a co-founder and past president of North Star, a faith-affirming support organization for Latter-day Saint individuals and families addressing sexual or gender identity and who desire to live within the framework of the teachings and values of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he is currently serving as a member of the board of directors. He is also part of the Reconciliation and Growth Project, a dialogue group between LGBTQ affirmative and religious conservative mental health professionals who have developed an ethical mental health treatment protocol for working with individuals experiencing conflict between their faith and their sexuality and/or gender identity. In a related project, he is part of the 4 Options Survey research team, a similarly ideologically diverse collaborative effort looking at healthy and sustainable life paths for sexual minorities. Ty and his wife, Danielle, and their five children live in Spanish Fork, Utah.