Pronouns: She/Her

Current Role:
Lecturer & Subject Coordinator, Masters of Professional Psychology, La Trobe University; Director, Dr Naomi Malone Consulting 

Professional Background:
Dr. Malone is an AHPRA-endorsed Counselling Psychologist, clinical supervisor, and experienced rural practitioner. With over two decades of experience, she has worked in private practice, community health, and academic settings. She founded A Life Simply Lived Psychology, a rural multidisciplinary practice, and focusses clinically on neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed therapy, ACT, IFS, and family therapy. She supervises and mentors early-career and neurodivergent clinicians.

Advocacy Highlights:
Naomi served on the Murray PHN Clinical Advisory Committee (2019–2022), advocating for improved rural mental health services, and is currently a member of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion disability advisory committee at Latrobe University.  She is the incoming chair of the ACBS Neurodiversity in Practice and Research Interest Group,  and board Vice President of Amegilla College Bendigo, where she advocates for neurodiversity affirming clinical practice and education.