Meredith Boyd,
She/her
Therapy helps people embrace all aspects of their experience with compassion and curiosity.
It is a safe and supportive environment to identify and pursue personally meaningful values. It involves increasing behavioral and cognitive flexibility through the practice of new skills and coping strategies. As a result, therapy enables people to feel more connected to themselves and others, empowering them to tackle life’s challenges in the service of their values.
Specialties:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and PTSD
- College and Life Transitions
- LGBT and Queer
I work primarily with adults, both individuals as well as couples, and find my work with the LGBTQ+ community very rewarding.
Core to my work with clients is openness and collaboration, developing a shared understanding of their goals for therapy and how we will work toward them.
I approach treatment from a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) perspective. I also draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Emotion Focused Therapy . Informed by these perspectives, I begin by helping clients connect with their personal values as a guiding direction in therapy. I then support clients to uncover the connections between their thoughts/beliefs, behaviors, and emotions. With these connections in mind, we apply skills and coping strategies to alter cognitive and behavioral patterns to pursue a personally meaningful life.
I obtained my PhD in clinical psychology at UCLA and completed my pre-doctoral internship at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. During internship, I received specialized training in treatments for PTSD and relationship distress.
In addition to my work at Tandem Psychology, I am an assistant research professor at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. In this role, I conduct implementation science research which focuses on incorporating research findings into clinical practice to improve client outcomes. I have authored over 20 research publications and book chapters and presented my work at national conferences. My proudest accomplishment, though, is teaching my dog to put away her toys. If we do teletherapy together, you’ll likely see her snoozing in the background.