Dominique Malebranche

Dr. Dominique A. Malebranche (she/they) is a licensed psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychology working at Pepperdine University on original Chumas/Tongva lands. Counseling psychologist by training from the University of Missouri, her work emphasizes intersections of embodied healing justice in BIPOC communities, mind-body interventions for psychological, relational, and cultural traumatic stress, as well as community capacity building. She is an invited Teaching Affiliate of Harvard Medical School at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion (CMC), former postdoctoral fellow at the internationally known Trauma Center at JRI in Brookline, MA, and previous intern at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

In addition to her university appointment, Dr. Malebranche centers the awareness of the body as a cultural source of healing, wisdom and transformation, demonstrated through co-organizing and co-founding Just Healing Coalition (JHC), providing embodied DEIJ and trauma-informed consultation in clinical, organizational, and community settings, and teaching trauma-informed yoga and contemplative practice from a liberatory framework. Recently published in the Special Issue of the Journal of Contemplative Inquiry, she has also received an Early Career Professional Innovative Research Award from the American Psychological Association and contributes to literature with most recent invited chapters in Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of color in search of freedom and Handbook for Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan. Current embodiment practices and emerging scholarship explores the cultivation of cultural reclamation, joy, healing, resistance and liberation in relationship to the ocean.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Missouri-Columbia (2011 — 2017)
• B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007 — 2011)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology (2021)
• Psychologist University of Missouri-Columbia (2021)
• Teaching Affiliate Harvard Medical School (2020)
• Teaching Affiliate Cambridge Health Alliance (2020)
• Teaching Affiliate CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion (2020)
• Assistant Professor Lesley University (2019 — 2021)
• Postdoctoral Fellow Justice Resource Institute (2017 — 2019)
• Program Coordinator Justice Resource Institute (2017 — 2019)
• Clinical Psychology Intern VA Palo Alto Health Care System (2016 — 2017)