Malak Psychology

03/26/2026

Would you like a therapeutic community with 5-10 peers with a goal of collective liberation? If yes, this is the group for you.

Malak Psychology's BIPOC Women's Empowerment Circle is a space where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color/Culture women, nonbinary and trans femmes come together to breathe, be witnessed, and build something real with one another.

Together, we navigate relationships, racial stress, intergenerational trauma, climate disaster, and the weight of living through WWIII.

🌿 What: Biweekly virtual therapy group
👥 Who: BIPOC women, nonbinary and trans femmes
🌍 Where: Virtual — available across PSYPACT states and potentially globally depending on regulations
📅 When: Wednesdays
⏰ 4–5:30pm PT | 5–6:30pm MT | 6–7:30pm CT | 7–8:30pm ET
*Time shifts one hour earlier during standard time (Fall/Winter). Arizona time remains the same.
💸 Cost: $44 / $77 / $111 per session

If you are ready to find your circle, schedule a free consult at malakpsychology.clientsecure.me
📞 Call or text 1.480.331.1322
📧 [email protected]

*Members must unequivocally believe in a free Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and more; f**k ICE; and FDT to be a good fit for this group.

We deserve to heal in community. 🖤🤎

03/20/2026

To those in Iran, Palestine, the Gulf, and the Northern Hemisphere. Nawroz Mubarak, Eid Mubarak, and Happy Spring Equinox. We hold you in our hearts today.

We won't pretend this is an easy season to celebrate. The region is carrying profound grief, and the destruction visited upon peoples, lands, air, water, and ecosystems feels relentless. We mourn alongside you as climate destruction affects us all with every bomb dropped.

To those in the Southern Hemisphere entering the Autumn Equinox today, may your season of turning inward, of release and reflection, support us all during this collective grief.

Across both hemispheres, this is when light and dark hold equal weight. We sit with the tension of honoring life and grieving loss at the same time. That is not a contradiction, it may be the most human thing we can do.

May those suffering find moments of genuine rest. May those fighting for justice find each other. May the earth remind us what resilience, healing, and connection actually are from a decolonial lens. May future generations coming inherit a new world with peace and stability.

With love and solidarity,

Amanda Malak, PsyD
Malak Psychology

10/06/2025

Qusay - 1 year old

I don’t know this child, but I know they deserve to live in safety and with dignity. This child is one of the 2.38 million Palestinian children who have the right to a future.

The occupied Gaza Strip is now recognized as the deadliest place on earth to be a child. An average of 28 children are killed each day in Gaza, while in the West Bank a record number of children have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers since January 2023.

We march together behind three clear demands:

- Stop killing, harming and starving Palestinian children
- Lift the blockade on Gaza
- End Israel’s occupation that the ICJ has declared unlawful

As a mental health clinician in the U.S. who is also a mandated reporter with a duty to report harm to vulnerable peoples, I will reiterate the need for a and a 🇵🇸 as we approach the 2nd anniversary of this genocide.

04/24/2025

I'm a clinical psychologist based in Arizona [on the ancestral lands of the Xalychidom Piipash and Akimel O’Odham peoples] and I treat people around the United States and in some other countries. I am here today to talk about the free therapeutic effects of protests. There are a lot of protests happening here, and there have been for many years. I know it can be scary for some, and of course, you need to discern your safety. For those who choose to protest, some of the benefits include art. Lots of people create signs, sometimes at protests but also at home, so it is an art therapy intervention. Also, lots of people listen to music and dance or chant; that’s music therapy, singing, right, also forms of art therapy. Also, marching, marching in and of itself, and singing, they are somatic releases of energy. Marching, especially in community, is powerful. I just really wanted to highlight this as I know some of these marches seem useless to people. Many people got arrested at Black Lives Matter Protests, [many were arrested during the Standing Rock protests], and now during Pro-Palestine protests. The most recent Hands Off Protests have been mostly White, so they are not as policed, and that is really hurtful for some people. No matter what, I hope you are safe out there and if you feel called, get out there and enjoy protests because it is therapeutic at the end of the day.

10/22/2024

I am excited to announce that I will be holding a virtual therapy group where diverse individuals can have the opportunity to process relationships, intergenerational trauma, existential concerns, and more. This group encourages communal healing during climate disaster and global violence integrating talk therapy and experiential therapies like dance, art, mindfulness, spirituality, and music.

This group is for adults aligned with liberation and decolonial philosophies, neurodiversity/disability affirming, LGBTQ+ affirming, & apartheid-free. Members may be in any PSYPACT state and in some non-US countries.
6-10 members will be in this closed group (no newbies until Fall 2025)

The group will run from January 2025 - June 2025, and be held Biweekly on Wednesdays from 4:00pm - 5:30pm MST (Arizona)

$44 / $77 / $111 per session sliding scale - Reflection available in bio via Radical History Club by way of https://www.radicalhistoryclub.com/sliding-scale

If interested, email [email protected], call/text 480.331.1322

08/12/2024

Excited to restart the Stressed & Sexy
BIPOC Women’s Group!

This biweekly therapy group is for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color/Culture (BIPOC) women and nonbinary or trans femmes. Build community while navigating relationships, racial stress, intergenerational trauma, collective liberation, and more with 6-10 peers.

Group begins October 2024 biweekly for 90 minutes on either Wednesdays or Thursdays late afternoon MST (time TBD). Group will be virtual with a hybrid option in AZ if there is enough interest.

$50 / $75 / $100 per session sliding scale - Reflection available in bio via Radical History Club by way of https://www.radicalhistoryclub.com/sliding-scale

If interested, email [email protected], call/text 480.331.1322, or complete the interest form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qOvcfD-hDQJ5rplneW1UBM9MgVfDKEjryKE616ZpKwc/prefill. Available to people in PSYPACT states and some other countries - https://psypact.org/mpage/psypactmap

02/12/2024

Happy ?Lunar? New Year! It's the year of the Wood Dragon! Wishing you and yours health, prosperity, and peace. https://youtube.com/shorts/n-_pyt0sbWI?si=Al6CGHhh_Q2dDF-9

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01/08/2024

As we embrace this sacred Orthodox Christmas, let’s stand in solidarity with our cousins in Palestine/Israel, Ethiopia (Tigray especially), Ukraine, Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh specifically) and Sudan where many Christians navigate war and genocide during this Nativity Feast. Amid these trying times, let’s appreciate the positive force of religion, promoting mental well-being and unity through compassion and hope. While religion can inspire boundless love, its shortcomings remind us of the human capacity for both good and evil. According to the Bible, Egypt’s Pharaoh was initially an oppressor to Jewish people. However, Egypt eventually became a refuge for Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as they escaped Herod’s genocidal campaign to maintain power. These stories illustrate the complex nature of humanity. Embracing the nuances within ourselves, others, and the world is crucial for mental health and building a safe and equitable global community. Merry Christmas / Feliz Día de los Reyes / Happy Epiphany Feast, as much as possible during these harsh times, to those in celebration.



This is one-two days late, and I still wanted to share to encourage efforts. Here is an article that explains the importance of this day in other cultures such as Greek Orthodox, Bulgarian, Spanish, and Russian. https://lnkd.in/dpiv-UYW.

Photo from https://lnkd.in/dHw9djZg

12/04/2023

Many struggle working within capitalist systems that have been designed to earn capital as cheaply and quickly as possible. While in my Masters of Social Entrepreneurship program at Hult International Business School in London from 2011-2012, I learned about the concept of . Many of my patients, colleagues, and friends discuss the challenges of being in oppressive systems, and many view as the remedy. While I also aspired for this and have now accomplished this goal as a private practice owner, I approached all the jobs, education, and training before opening my practice as an intrapreneur attempting to foster as much change as possible while in these systems and learning what to avoid when creating my own business. Furthermore, we do not all have the desire, skills, or privilege to take the real risk of becoming an entrepreneur as these capitalistic systems, especially in the U.S., create many barriers to becoming an entrepreneur to ensure there is enough labor for large corporations. Intrapraneurship warrants the possibility of creating change in the ill systems we each are a part of. I hope all of us can bring meaning to our work as the most essential workers are those in the trenches alongside colleagues with varied views and opinions that continue the status quo which is patriarchal, settler-colonial, white supremacy. Intrapreneurs are the medicinal forces needed to cure the illnesses within corporate, industrialized, western, capitalistic structures. Rematriation is an indigenous term that describes what is needed to cure the ills of our current society, and it means returning the sacred to the mother. May each and every one of you flourish into your fullest selves whether through entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship, and may we embark on our journey with ease and grace.

Sending a special thank you for this visual.

11/06/2023

During Native American Heritage Month, we would love to honor those who tended to the land that we currently occupy. Malak Psychology is on the Akimel O'Odham and Xalychidom Piipash lands who are more commonly known in the Phoenix metropolitan area as the Pima ("River People") and Maricopa ("People who live toward the water") peoples. My office is walking distance to the Salt River Reservation which is federally designated as an underserved healthcare area. While I comfortably live a few blocks away, remnants of the intergenerational trauma imposed on Indigenous peoples across the Americas is all around. We have a street called "Indian School" which led people to an actual Indian School which is now Steele Indian School Park. As I cross the threshold onto Tribal lands, there are less sidewalks, street lights, and more agricultural cultivation. I have been honored to join a Powwow, to witness the Princesses from these tribes, and to join in on sweat lodges throughout my life on this Reservation. The water in this rugged desert is brought to our homes and businesses through canals developed by these Tribes centuries ago. Indigenous Tribes are filled with culture, resilience, beauty, and heartbreak. There is much for us all to learn from how our Native cousins tended to this land sustainably, and they are due reparations after their forcible removal from their lands and genocide that ensued with the introduction of settler colonialism on Turtle Island. Check out https://native-land.ca/ to see which lands you occupy, and connect to your own Indigenous heritage if you can. Indigenous healing is as beneficial, and sometimes more beneficial, for mental health than western healing methods. How did your ancestors navigate mental health challenges?

Thank you for this wonderful artwork !