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About Natalie (she/her)
I am a counseling psychologist-in-training in the University of Kentucky Counseling Psychology PhD Program and yoga teacher with expertise in holistic wellness and sexual/reproductive health. Combining my lived experience as a Black queer woman and education allow me to integrate holistic healing and wellness interventions into my research, clinic work, and classes in a deeply meaningful way.
My yoga practice began in 2017 when my therapist introduced me to mindfulness and vinyasa. Since 2017, I have maintained my practice and received yoga certification from The Om Place in 2021. Currently, I teach at Sterling Hot Yoga located in Lexington, Kentucky, and provide independent services detailed on this site.
Natalie is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS).
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Research
Conducted with Love
Here are a few of my publications! Please email me if you are interested in receiving a full list
Honoring the Ori: Mindfulness meditation at the intersection of Black women’s spirituality and sexualities
Malone & Hargons (2021)
Pursuing pleasure despite pain: A mixed-methods investigation of Black women’s responses to sexual pain and coping
Malone, Thorpe, Jester, Dogan, Stevens-Watkins, D., & Hargons (2021)
“Anger, embarrassment, less than a woman”: The emotional impact of Black women’s sexual pain
Malone, Thorpe, Jester, Dogan, Stevens-Watkins, & Hargons (2022)
Black sexual minority women's social well-being and psychological distress
Thorpe, Malone, & Hargons (2022)
Differences in sexual desire among Black adults in the US
Malone, Wright, Peterson, Annett, Mizelle, Thorpe, & Hargons (under review)
“My mom would always say pussy rules the world”: A qualitative exploration of Black women’s sexual messages
Malone, Thorpe, Iyiewuare, Dogan, McCoy, Howard, Jester, & Hargons (under review)
Cultural predictors of self-esteem among Black women with criminal justice involvement and herpes simplex virus
Malone, Dogan, Thorpe, Thrasher, Wheeler, Stevens-Watkins & Oser (under review)
The Peak of pleasure: US southern Black women’s definitions of and feelings toward sexual pleasure
Thorpe, Malone, Hargons, Dogan, & Jester (2022)
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Clinical
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I complete practica as a counseling psychologist-in-training and have developing experience with individual and group therapy, psychoeducation workshops, support groups, assessment, supervision, and more
I am not currently a licensed psychologist or mental health professional, nor do I practice independent from my training program
Aug. 2022-May 2024
Neighborhood Healers Clinic/Global Majority Wellness. Learn more here.
Aug. 2021-June 2022
Eastern State Hospital (Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital)
Aug. 2020-May 2021
Eastern Kentucky University Counseling Center
Oct. 2019-March 2020
New Vista Center for Women and Children (Residential Treatment Facility)
June 2019-Aug.2019
University of Kentucky Laboratory of Human Behavioral Pharmacology
My Community Connections
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