The Neighborhood Healers Clinic is a mental health service for Black clients and training clinic for mental health trainees interested in learning culturally affirming, high quality care for the Black community.
Neighborhood Healers Clinic
About Us
Mission Statement
Our goal for the NHC is to help heal the Black community in KY by eliminating barriers that interfere with accessible mental health care and mental health service utilization. Community members communicated their needs to the fellows and the response was to develop the NHC clinic. Giving clients the opportunity to develop a healthy mindset to heal the past, live in the present and GROW into the future.
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Kendra Maxwell, MA, LPCC,NCC
Clinical Director
Kendra Maxwell is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and EMDR trained therapist who is committed to changing the narrative within BIPOC mental health. Embodying a holistic-based treatment style and integrative therapeutic approach, Kendra intersects the two, cultivating a space for authentic liberation into reclaiming your power of self love and well being. Providing each individual with the clinical tools, Kendra intentionally works to help you grow into the person you are inherently worthy of being; YOU!
Natalie Malone
Natalie Malone, MS 200RYT (she/her) is a counseling psychology doctoral candidate whose research and clinical work prioritizes Black women's sexual, spiritual, and holistic well-being. She is a certified yoga instructor who incorporates embodied healing into her Black Feminist/Womanist therapeutic approach. Fun fact: Natalie's personal library consists of over 3K books!
Brittany Cannon
Brittany is a native of Bennettsville, SC, and is a two-time graduate of Francis Marion University, where she obtained her bachelor's degree (2018) in psychology and her master's in clinical/counseling psychology (2021). She is a second-year post-master's doctoral student at the University of Kentucky. Brittany identifies as a Christian Black woman who is a daughter, sister, friend, cousin, granddaughter, and niece. She enjoys free writing, singing, laughing, dancing, and spending time with loved ones. Mary Church Terrell's quote, "Lifting as we climb" is a motto that guides her actions.
Courtney Wright
Courtney is a fourth-year counseling psychology PhD student at the University of Kentucky. Originally from New Jersey, Courtney came to UK after completing both her BA in Applied Psychology and Human Development and MA in Mental Health Counseling at Boston College. As a member of the RISE^2 research team, Courtney's research focuses on mental health and wellness interventions in communities of color and Black women's gendered racial identity development and financial wellness. Courtney also enjoys working with clients in therapy to address relationship issues, mood and stress-related concerns, identity development & healing from identity-based harm. In her spare time, Courtney enjoys traveling, yoga/exercising, journaling, and trying new restaurants.
Community-building Fun Fact: I put my values to the test by creating a retreat called Black Women Matter that centered celebrating Black women and fostering our healing through community!
Destin Mizelle
Theoretical Approach: Interpersonal Processing Therapy and Relational Cultural Therapy
Fun Fact: I love to travel and experience new cultures. I've been to 27 countries.
Quote: "If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders...We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give." -Vernon Jordan
Research Information
The Neighborhood Healers
Training Black Community First Responders in Mental Health First Aid project is dedicated to improving mental health awareness, literacy, service initiation, and access for Black people in Lexington, Kentucky. One hundred Black community first responders will participate in the Neighborhood Healers Fellowship over the five- year funding period. Community first responders are members of the public, rather than professionally trained people, who are typically the first point of contact in distress or crisis. Among Black communities, where there is understandable cultural mistrust of professional first responders due to documented racial inequity in the quality of service they receive, community first responders often include pastors and first ladies, hair stylists/barbers, community elders, family members, civic organization members, and educators.
Through the development of the Neighborhood Healers Fellowship program, we intend to harness the strength of existing relationships to amplify the importance of mental health awareness and treatment for Black people in Lexington, Kentucky.