Beverly Kyer
Dr. Beverly Kyer
Dr. Beverly Kyer has been a public speaker, trauma specialist, and educator for more than 43 years. Her areas of expertise include Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the impact of trauma on brain development, behavior, and learning in children, youth, and adults, as well as Compassion Fatigue, also known as Secondary or Vicarious Trauma.
Dr. Kyer has served as a Readjustment Counseling Therapist for Vietnam Veterans in Operation Outreach, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Coordinator, and Assistant Chief of Social Work Services at the Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center in New York. She has also spent several years working with children and families receiving medical and psychiatric care, including those in pediatric oncology, juvenile justice, and foster care systems.
Dr. Kyer is a Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist and the founder and former CEO of The Kyer Group Corporation, a team of trauma-informed specialists dedicated to training and supporting helping professionals. The organization has since evolved and rebranded as the Wellness Reset Campus.
Beverly provides both on-site and virtual training internationally. Her mission is to educate, inspire, and support recovery, resilience, effectiveness, and long-term capacity for professional service providers and family caregivers serving physically and mentally challenged individuals, trauma survivors, and society’s most vulnerable populations, especially children.
Throughout her career, Dr. Kyer has served in numerous roles, including:
- Trainer
- Educator
- Therapist
- Psychiatric and Medical Social Worker
- Social Work Field Placement Supervisor for Columbia University
- Program Coordinator
- Social Work Supervisor
- Assistant Chief of Service
- Grief & Loss and Trauma-Informed Educator
- Consultant
Dr. Kyer also served for several years as an instructor at UC Davis Extension and the University of Nevada School of Social Work in Reno, Nevada.
Her participatory training style creates an interactive and collaborative learning environment focused on finding practical solutions, improving service delivery, and promoting self-care through her Healthy Workplace Initiative.
Formal Education
- Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City
- North Peralta Community College, Oakland, California
- University of California, Berkeley
- Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work, New York City
- Northeast Regional Medical Education Center, New York State
- University of Metaphysics, Sedona, Arizona