Dr. B has spent her career walking alongside people through their hardest moments — and she'll tell you it's the most meaningful work she knows.

Dr. Boyd’s training was rigorous and wide-reaching. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Howard University, completed her clinical internship through The Boston Consortium — affiliated with the Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, and Harvard Medical School — and went on to postdoctoral training at the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital, where she deepened her expertise in psychological assessment, diagnosis, and anxiety treatment.

From there, her path led her to San Diego, where she spent years conducting research on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury alongside Veterans at the VA San Diego Health Care System and the Veterans Medical Research Foundation. She also served on faculty at the University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, and Alliant International University — teaching courses in Trauma, Crisis Intervention, Stress Management, and Self-Love/Self-Compassion, and mentoring the next generation of clinicians along the way.

Today, Dr. B runs a thriving private practice that brings her deep joy. Her clinical specialties span PTSD and combat-related trauma, childhood trauma and sexual abuse, anxiety and panic disorders, OCD, traumatic brain injury, self-image and boundaries, relational and family issues, and couples work. She also serves as a psychological consultant and expert witness for legal proceedings involving PTSD and stress reactivity.

Woven through all of it is a commitment to social justice. Dr. B brings a social justice framework to every client relationship and every room she enters — because healing is never separate from the broader work of cultivating love and justice in our communities.

Becoming Your Own Safe Place is the natural extension of that work. Through this online community on Mighty Networks, Dr. B is creating something she's always believed in: a space where healing doesn't require a waiting room, where evidence-based psychology meets real human connection, and where people — wherever they are — can begin learning to become the safe place they've always needed to be for themselves.