Tyler Henry: From Child Clairvoyant To Hollywood Medium

Tyler Henry, otherwise known as the Hollywood Medium — the name of his very first television show — is a highly sought-after clairvoyant who first gained fame when he was just 20 years old. During his time performing psychic readings for celebrities, Henry has worked with Jim Parsons, Megan Fox, and the Kardashian/Jenner family.

Although Henry has spent most of his adult life in the spotlight, few people outside his small town in California knew of his gift until "Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry" premiered in 2016. The show catapulted him into becoming one of the most in-demand mediums in the world. Since then, he's gone on multiple live tours, written books, and starred in Netflix's "Life After Death With Tyler Henry" in 2022 that further expanded his audience. Today, his waiting list exceeds over 300,000 people.

After discovering his clairvoyant gift, Henry's life has changed dramatically. The weight of being a medium often affects his mental health, something even "Long Island Medium" Theresa Caputo discussed in an interview with The List about her struggles with mediumship. Going through the mental and physical effects tied to this gift is even more heightened when it's showcased on television for the world to see. Still, Henry continues to work despite a busy schedule, an active personal life, and several health scares.

Tyler Henry Koelewyn was born on January 13, 1996, in the small town of Hanford, California. His childhood was fairly typical ... for a short while. Not unlike his New York counterpart "Long Island Medium" Theresa Caputo who realized her abilities as a child, Henry began receiving metaphysical messages from a young age.

As he told the Asbury Park Press in 2018, Henry discovered he had a unique intuition at 10. He woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling that his grandmother was going to die. He rushed to his mother's room to tell her and just as he was explaining what he described as a "knowingness," the phone rang with news that his grandmother had actually just passed away.

"It felt like a memory, almost as though it had already happened. It was really weird," Henry said of the experience. "So that was really the catalyst. But at 10 years old when something is happening, you don't call it a premonition. It took some time to really understand what was happening. I still don't entirely understand."

For the most part, Tyler Henry's family was supportive of his newly discovered skill as he was growing up. Apparently, though, Henry's father, David Koelewyn, was a skeptic at first. It wasn't until his son performed a significant reading on him using an old yearbook that Koelewyn changed his mind.

Although his father seems to prefer life away from the spotlight, Henry appears to maintain a very close relationship with Koelewyn. "Though you guys haven't seen him on ['Hollywood Medium'] as of yet, he's an incredible source of support and his encouragement gave me the strength to share my ability," Henry wrote on Instagram in 2017. In another Instagram post about his father, he shared, "It's a privilege to have a dad that is someone I'd want to be friends with. His love for his child was stronger than any of the 'coming outs' he was met with as a parent."

As Tyler Henry grew up, he attempted to explore and gain more control of his psychic abilities in a number of ways. One of the methods he used to practice and apply his gift was performing psychic readings on some of his classmates and teachers at Sierra Pacific High School, which helped spread the word about his unusual talent.

Along with this, Henry used to do one-on-one readings for $40 per session and helped give grieving lessons at a local shop, The Cosmic Corral: Gifts for the Soul. "He was 16, and he'd come in and linger, listen, watch. A very, very intelligent young man," Tom McGuire, one of the shop's owners who served as an early mentor for Henry, told The Outline of the young medium. While most high school students work part-time jobs at restaurants or clothing stores at the local mall, Henry was focused on strengthening his spiritual skills in the little free time he had before and after leaving public school for homeschooling.

Homeschooling allowed Tyler Henry to graduate at the age of 16. He then enrolled in college at West Hills College in Coalinga, California, and started studying to become a hospice nurse. "I knew that I wanted to focus on [helping] people and there I would still be able to deliver messages," he explained of his former career choice to Out in 2015.

At one point, Henry believed that his calling was to help people have a comfortable transition to "the other side." Still, he continued to regularly practice his abilities by giving private readings at a local bookstore when he wasn't studying.

Interestingly enough, Henry received a reading from another psychic who foresaw his success in the entertainment industry while he was still in college. "I got a reading from a woman who told me that when I was 19 I'd start filming a TV show, and that it would do well and that I'd write books and that was my life purpose. At the time I was open-minded but I said, 'I don't know how that could be.' And then sure enough, when I was 19 it all happened," he told Out.

As Tyler Henry continued down the path of becoming a professional hospice nurse in college, his talent was becoming a topic of conversation among A-Listers fewer than 200 miles south in Los Angeles. Henry reportedly approached a Fresno talent agent, Carollyn DeVore, when he was 16 and she encouraged him to go to a talent search. When he did, he ended up meeting his first publicist, Ron Scott.

As Scott began to promote Henry in the Hollywood area, more and more celebrities began to book his private sessions — he was no longer only performing readings for friends and Hanford locals. Before long, Henry met Michael Corbett, an Emmy-winning actor and television host, at a 2013 Christmas party in Beverly Hills. Corbett was intrigued yet skeptical of Henry's supposed gift, and he immediately booked a private session. "By the end of the reading I was a firm believer and knew I had to create a TV show for him," Corbett admitted to TV Insider. Corbett went on to serve as the executive producer for Henry's show, and the pair received an offer from E! Entertainment Television for a show when Henry was only 19 years old. Thus, "Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry" was born.

On "Hollywood Medium," Tyler Henry performed readings for a wide range of celebrities — from Lizzo to RuPaul to Rebel Wilson, and garnered nearly 900,000 viewers per episode. While there's a lot the cameras don't show you on "Hollywood Medium" — like the clairvoyant's meditation ritual before each session, other things are in plain sight, such as his clients' skepticism. But Henry's psychic readings have been known to convince doubtful celebrities that he has an undeniable gift.

"As a medium, I encourage skepticism. I encourage critical thinking. That's how we learn new things," Henry shared with the Los Angeles Daily News in 2022. In a previous interview with The Outline, he also said, "Unfortunately there are a lot of people who are not legitimate, but in the same vein there's also cynics who have their own agendas as well, who aren't scientifically minded but claim to be."

In an especially emotional scene from the show's second season, actor Jaleel White could not believe that Henry hadn't researched what he brought up in their session. "You've got to be messing with me now. You've got to be Googling this stuff before you come in here. You're messing with me," White repeated to Henry before revealing that the medium had connected with one of his former "Family Matters" co-stars who met a tragic end. In the episode, White sheds tears at the memory of his late friend, clearly overcome with emotion and shocked by Henry's gift.

Within the same year that "Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry" premiered, Tyler Henry released his first memoir, "Between Two Worlds: Lessons from the Other Side." The book, which was published in 2016, discusses Henry's experience realizing his gift, the symbolism that is ever-present throughout his readings, and the kinds of lessons that we can take away from losing loved ones. The memoir offers fans a more complete look at the "Hollywood Medium" star, as his E! show focused more on his actual readings than his personal history. 

The book also serves as a deeper exploration of his psychic process. "Whether someone is grieving and looking for a resource for comfort, or they're just interested about how the process works, there's something to be gained in reading [my book]," Henry said of "Between Two Worlds" when speaking with the Hanford Sentinel in 2017.

In 2019, Tyler Henry announced a live show, "Life Lessons I've Learned from the Departed," that would take his fame to a whole new stage – literally. The show featured stories from his life, anecdotes about particularly influential readings, and arguably the most anticipated portion of the shows: live readings. Unfortunately, Henry eventually took a break from touring after being hospitalized.

"In early 2020, I was set to do one of my live shows. Before the event, I was laying in bed, getting mentally ready for all of what I was about to do on stage, when suddenly I felt a chest pain," Henry shared during an episode of "Life After Death with Tyler Henry." He went on to explain that one of his lungs had collapsed. "Within moments, I needed medical intervention, or I would have died," he revealed. "I spent months in the hospital recovering and recouping from this traumatic experience." 

Despite the health scare, the medium went back on tour to continue hosting live shows. "The goal is to leave people better than I found them," Henry told Out in Jersey in 2022 of his new live show "An Evening of Hope and Healing."

In early 2022, within weeks of the premiere for "Life After Death with Tyler Henry," Tyler Henry released his second book, titled "Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now." "The basis of the self-help book is also what the other side can teach us about living our best lives. These are individuals who have lived, died and the premise [of the book] is based on what they would do differently," he shared of the much-anticipated follow-up to his debut memoir in an interview with Out in Jersey.

Henry also divulged what it was like to process his 2020 health scare in "Here and Hereafter," writing, "Since we can't undo traumatic events, the only control we have is what we do with it. The more acceptance we can establish over that which we cannot control, the closer to contentedness we'll be." He continued, writing, "By knowing what we can't control, we can put more energy into what we can."

On "Life After Death with Tyler Henry," the famous psychic returned to doing readings for viewers to watch on their television screens. The show, which is produced by Netflix, features more insight into the workings of Henry's readings compared to "The Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry."

"Filming this show has lent me an opportunity to help people who have a deep need for a reading. When I took the leap and had the courage to share my ability, I was doing it for people who I thought would benefit from it the most. To see how my life has evolved now, being back in that place, has been a reminder of why I do what I do," Henry shared in the series premiere of "Life After Death."

Additionally, the series features a plot line in which Henry tries to help his mother locate her biological family in Louisiana. According to the show, Henry's mother, Theresa Koelewyn, was stolen from her family as a child by a woman who would go on to become a convicted murderer. "She could've had a completely different life that was taken from her by this criminal," Henry reveals in the episode.

Following the success of 2022's "Life After Death," Tyler Henry returned to Netflix in 2024 with a brand new show dubbed "Live from the Other Side." This time around, his focus was on pushing the envelope and doing something that hadn't been done before: live readings. In the eight-part series, Henry met various celebrities without prior preparation and with no chance to hide behind editing if anything went wrong. "[Live streaming has] never really been done in the world of mediumship in such a way where we're going to have such a large viewership," he proudly told Today. "It's going to be so spontaneous."

While the prospect was an exciting one for Henry, it was also nerve-wracking. "We, going live, will see what happens in real time with very little safeguards," the famous medium told USA Today. "Which for skeptics is going to be really interesting to watch, and I think for believers could be very compelling if all goes as one hopes." Unfortunately, the formula didn't ultimately appear to sway his harshest critics. While reviewing the show, The Guardian dubbed it "the worst live TV event ever," then slammed Henry and his skills, proclaiming, "It's dreary, unconvincing, and morally dubious."

After nearly a decade of dating, Tyler Henry and Clint Godwin said "I do" at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in May 2025. Taking to Instagram to share the exciting news, Henry told fans he knew he'd marry Godwin from the moment they met. "Best premonition ever!" he quipped. The reality TV star also praised their union in the sweet post, telling his partner, "Life with you is an endless sleepover with my best friend and life's just getting started."

It wasn't the first time Henry called their relationship a "love at first sight" situation. The duo met in 2016 when Godwin sent Henry a message to book a reading after seeing him in action on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." Speaking with GLAAD in 2022, Henry recalled how being able to share a message from Godwin's late grandfather helped them form a deep bond during that very first encounter. "Immediately, I found myself a part of his family, being immersed in what they were going through," Henry said. Since then, the famed medium has gushed about their union repeatedly, like on Valentine's Day 2025 when he posted a sweet tribute to Instagram. "Whether I'm 29 or 92, this love will always be my guiding force, a reprieve from all of life's heaviness," Henry enthused.

A decade after an 18-year-old Tyler Henry underwent emergency surgery to remove a congenital cyst from his brain, he was back in the operating room for a similar procedure. In May 2025, one week after marrying Clint Godwin, a 29-year-old Henry took to Instagram to reveal he had experienced another major health scare. "I had a colloid tumor near the center of my brain and thankfully most of it has been removed," he wrote, quipping, "The tumor, not my brain... that is." A colloid tumor is a benign or non-cancerous cyst that can grow in the brain, causing a variety of symptoms, such as headaches and vertigo. In his post, Henry went on to thank hospital staff and confirm his brain surgery was successful. Striking an optimistic note, he added, "This isn't my first rodeo with this and I have so much to be thankful for."

Just two weeks later, Henry returned to Instagram to reveal he was jumping back into work with a virtual group reading. Thanking fans for their support, he also squashed their worries that working might hinder his recovery. "Readings are a huge relief for me," he shared. As he previously explained to The Cut, the connections take over his life if he doesn't have a way to release them. "If I want to take three weeks off, by week No. 2, I start feeling a little funny and even funnier and even funnier," he revealed.