Garrett Boyer was born and raised in North Dakota. He completed undergraduate studies at North Dakota State University and graduate studies at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He worked as a music professor and lecturer in the National Capitol Region before completing doctoral studies in clinical psychology in 2020 at Divine Mercy University in Sterling, Virginia. Dr. Boyer enlisted in the United States Army in 2017 and commissioned as a Captain in 2019. Dr. Boyer completed his doctoral internship and residency at the Womack Army Medical Center in North Carolina, and currently serves as the deputy chief of embedded behavioral health at the Winn Army Community Hospital in Fort Stewart, Georgia.