Embracing Every Season of You

Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter, PhD is a child clinical licensed Psychologist with 38 years of experience working with children, adolescents, families and adults across a range of settings including outpatient mental health clinics, schools, child care centers, juvenile and probate courts, community health centers, and social service agencies. For 26 years, Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter was the Psychologist at The Park School (a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school) in Brookline, Massachusetts where she is known as “Dr. O.” Since 2004, she has been a faculty member of the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (CMTP), an APA accredited predoctoral internship program at Boston University Chobanian and Avedesian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian and Avedesian School of Medicine. Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter is the former Chair of the Massachusetts Board of Licensure for Psychologists and the American Psychological Association (APA) Ethics Committee. 

Currently, she is a member of the Massachusetts Psychological Association (MPA) Ethics Committee (2025-2030). She is Past President of APA’s Division 35 (The Society for the Psychology of Women) and in 2014, received the Division 35 Bonnie R. Strickland and Jessica Henderson Daniel Distinguished Mentoring Award. In 2019, she was the recipient of APA’s Division 35 Foremothers Mentorship Career Excellence Award. She was a National Multicultural Conference and Summit (NMCS) Distinguished Elder Award recipient in 2024. She is also the 2026 recipient of the Sue Rosenberg Zalk award for Distinguished Service to Division 35. Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter is the former Chair of the APA Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest (BAPPI) and a former member of the APA Board of Educational Affairs (BEA). She was elected to serve on APA’s Council of Representatives (COR) representing Division 35 from 2021-2024, and served as Chair of COR’s Women’s Caucus (2023).  Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter was elected Recording Secretary of the APA Board of Directors and will serve from 2025-2027. 

She has a private consulting practice which includes working with faculty and administrators in independent schools throughout the country on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as a range of topics related to the healthy growth and development of children, parenting, and self-care; professional mentorship; and clinical consultation, presentations, workshops, and retreats. Since 2004, Dr. Moorehead-Slaughter has served on the faculty of the Diversity Directions Independent School Seminar (held each summer at Brooks School in North Andover or virtually) and also consults to independent schools with Diversity Directions throughout the year. She is a former Board member of the Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) and serves on the Board of Domestic Violence Ended (DoVE) and Codman Square Health Center.  She identifies as a cisgendered, African-American/Black female, feminist, heterosexual, married, mother of 2 adult sons. Her pronouns are she/her/hers.