About / Founder
Dr. Courtney Tracy, LCSW, PsyD.
Clinician, educator, and founder of High Tide — building the kind of treatment she spent her career wishing existed.
Founder & Chief Clinical Officer
Her story
Dr. Tracy's conviction is simple: recovery should be honest before it is comfortable. That standard shapes everything at High Tide — the therapy, the pace, the people, and the setting.
After years working inside large treatment systems, she saw the same pattern repeat: good clinicians stretched across too many clients, and people in real crisis treated like bed numbers. High Tide is her answer — small by design, clinically serious, and built in a place that makes rest possible.
As “The Truth Doctor,” she has become one of the most trusted clinical voices in the country, known for saying the quiet parts of mental health care out loud.
“Small by design. You will never be a bed number here.”
Credentials & work
LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker — years of frontline work in dual-diagnosis and crisis settings.
PsyD
Doctorate of Psychology, deepening a clinical practice grounded in trauma and identity work.
Educator
Reaches millions as “The Truth Doctor” — making real clinical insight accessible far beyond the therapy room.
Founder
Built High Tide in Laguna Beach: a small, serious program where recovery is honest before it is comfortable.
Experience the program she built.
Every part of High Tide reflects Dr. Tracy's clinical philosophy — start with one conversation.