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As a clinician, she promotes mental health awareness to reduce stigmatization and empower those suffering and struggling with mental illness.  Dr. Boyd believes in transforming the mind, body, and spirit into a cohesive entity for mental health recovery.  Her clinical practices are oriented towards the Mental Health Recovery Model.  Mental health recovery allows individuals to go through an active process of change, being in control, strengthening, and empowering themselves to improve their mental health and well-being.  The recovery model emphasizes and supports a person's potential for recovery.  Recovery sees symptoms as a continuum of the norm rather than an aberration.  Mental health recovery is generally seen in this approach as a personal journey rather than a set outcome, and one that may involve developing hope, a secure base and sense of self, supportive relationships, empowerment, social inclusion, coping skills, and meaning.

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Collegiate Educational & Clinical Training

• University of Miami

  • Family Medicine, Advance Nursing Practices

• Florida International University

  • Psychiatric Mental Health, Advance Nursing Practices

• Gallaudet University

  • Developmental Psychychology, Psychological Assessment and Testing

• Florida State University

  • General Psychology, Psychological Assessment and Testing

Professional Experience

• Psychiatry

• Addiction / Substance Use Disorders

• Sleep Medicine

• Family Medicine

• Cardiology

• Pediatrics

• Pediatric Neurology

Current Research Interest

• Psychotropic vs non-psychotropic management/treatment of depression, mood disorders, anxiety, trauma/PTSD, sleep disorders; individualized case dependent patient care

• The affects and benefits of psychotherapeutic modalities on mental health disorders

• The cycle of addiction, root cause analysis

• Stigma associated with mental health disorders and substance use disorders

Honors and Awards

• Victim Services Practitioner Designation Certification

• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

• The National Scholars Honor Society

• The National Society of Collegiate Scholars

• Phi Sigma Theta National Honor Society

• The National Honor Society in Psychology

• Florida State University – Dean’s List Recipient

• Florida Atlantic University – Dean’s List Recipient

• Florida Atlantic University – President’s List Recipient

Professional affiliations and memberships

• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

• American Psychiatric Nurses Association

• American Nurses Association

• American Nurses Credentialing Center

• Florida’s Nurses Association

• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

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Meet the team