Board certified in general psychiatry and child-and-adolescent psychiatry, Dr. Joy Kennedy practices in Point Loma from the Naval base at 2051 Cushing Road, where she relocated after completing residency and fellowship training at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Her child-and-adolescent fellowship at Children's Medical Center Dallas emphasized psychodynamic and family therapy, and her current caseload integrates psychotherapy with medication management for patients aged four through adulthood—a combined approach also used by Burd Psychotherapy for perinatal and pediatric populations in Point Loma. Kennedy's UT Southwestern residency included training alongside nationally recognized researchers studying depression and psychotic disorders, and her fellowship years produced research on mood and anxiety disorder management in pediatric patients. Clinical interests include military-family psychiatry, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders, reflecting a caseload shaped by both the base population and the broader San Diego community. Complex cases requiring specialized psychotherapy modalities beyond medication management are referred to community therapists including Dialogic Healing for trauma-informed talk therapy on the peninsula. The most clinically intensive presentations involve adolescent eating-disorder cases requiring coordinated psychiatric medication, family therapy, and medical monitoring across multiple treatment teams.