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Dr. Dominica

Transforming Ourselves. Transforming Our World.

Dr. Dominica McBride

What if personal growth isn’t just the start of collective transformation, but the key to real change?

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I am Dr. Dominica McBride,

a guide, mother, evaluator, and community psychologist.

I am deeply devoted to healing, transformation, and collective liberation. For over two decades, I’ve walked alongside communities, from Chicago to Tanzania, helping people reconnect to their truth, reclaim their power, and co-create lives and communities grounded in love, dignity, and possibility. My work blends deep presence, cultural responsiveness, and visionary practice, rooted in the belief that healing ourselves and healing our communities go hand in hand.

At the heart of everything I do is this truth:

We are whole, worthy, and powerful…and we are becoming.

I’ve held space for healing as a therapist, surfaced truths through evaluation, and facilitated gatherings that ignite clarity, connection, and courageous action. Whether with individuals, organizations, or entire communities, I create spaces for growth and transformation that reflect our highest potential.

While the systems around us have caused harm, they do not define us. We are here to build anew with solutions, structures, and cultures that honor our humanity and support our collective becoming. Yes, I bring academic and professional experience – a PhD in Counseling Psychology, national recognition, and the founding of BECOME, a nonprofit that works locally and nationally to support community-led transformation. But more than anything, my work is shaped by deep relationships, lived experience, and the sacred stories people have entrusted to me along the way.

I don’t just speak about change:

I walk it, with and alongside others.

Let’s heal, rise, and become…together.

How we can work together.

Whether you’re seeking a dynamic speaker, a transformational training, or tools to support your healing and leadership journey, these offerings are here to nourish and activate.

OFFERINGS

Keynotes

Invite Dr. Dominica to inspire your audience at conferences, campuses, congregations, or community events.

Signature Topics:

Healing and Self-Actualization: the journey of becoming one’s highest self

Cultural Humility: the art and science of strengthening relationships and working across differences

Leading Change: visioning, actualizing, and evaluating the change you want to see in the world

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Workshops

Dr. Dominica’s workshops are immersive 3–4 hour sessions built around her signature framework for healing-centered, transformative leadership—designed to foster reflection, emotional growth, and purpose-driven impact.

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Fireside Chats

Dr. Dominica’s 60-minute fireside chats are dynamic, intimate conversations grounded in her signature framework for healing-centered leadership—offering powerful insights, storytelling, and reflection to inspire meaningful personal and professional growth.

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The Becoming Journal shares a theme for our becoming, and the text program sends reflections and affirmations to nourish our journey.

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Awards & Features

Dr. Dominica’s speeches and written works have been featured across major networks and publications, including New American, Channel 10 News, WVON, WTTW, the Awake the Network podcast, the Find the Outside podcast, and more.

Recent Awards

2025 Most Influential CEO in Community Development (Illinois)

Who’s Who in America (2025)

Health 2.0 Conference Visionaries Award (2026)

TESTIMONIALS

Dear one,

The world has left a lot of dirt on us. Layers of it. From pandemics to war, from personal betrayals to everyday exhaustion. It accumulates. It settles on our minds, our bodies, our spirit.

It can leave us feeling lonely, not enough, too much, broken, or worn down.

If any of this lives in you, this site is for you. For us.

We are so often fed lies of scarcity. Our power, brilliance, and necessity are hidden from our own eyes. We’re told we’re alone. We’re told we’re not wanted. We’re told that certain people are “the problem.” And in that fog, we can end up turning against ourselves or each other, instead of stepping into the love and power that have always been ours.

If you have ever seen yourself fall short in creating the life, leadership, or impact that is rightfully yours, this site is for you. For us.

Let me share a small story.

Not too long ago, communities across the world struggled with goitre, a thyroid disease that caused suffering, weakness, and disfigurement. The solution was iodine – simple, but not easily accessible to the people who needed it most. Until someone made a profound choice: add iodine to salt. Something used every day—something already in every home. And just like that, what once caused widespread suffering became almost nonexistent. Not because people changed overnight, but because support became ambient, accessible, woven into daily life.

That is what I want for us.

For personal and collective growth to become like iodine in salt…readily available, built into our lives, always within reach. Because in each of us lives brilliance, seeds of love, divine wisdom, and the capacity for deep connection. These gifts may get covered with dirt (past pain, current stress, oppressive structures, and the lies placed upon us), but they are never gone. We simply need to brush them off. To see clearly. To remember who we are and who we can become.

This site is for you if you feel that spark (even faintly) calling you back to yourself.

Let me ask you:

What becomes possible when you brush off what dimmed your light and realign with your highest, truest self? Who might you become? And who might we become together?

This is the journey of becoming.

Becoming… together.

Here, you’ll find tools, reflections, inspiration, and love.

A place to breathe, to connect, to rise.

A place to remember your power and your possibility.

A place where growth is not a luxury, but a birthright.

Let this be your refuge.

Let this be your catalyst.

Let this be where you return to yourself and rise.

Welcome Home.