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MEET THE TEAM
Batsirai Bvunzawabaya, Ph.D.
Dr. Batsirai Bvunzawabaya is a Counseling Psychologist with a small private practice in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She is currently serving as the Director of Integrated Care Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania's Student Health and Counseling. She is also working with the Steve Fund as a consultant.
Dr. Bvunzawabaya is originally from Zimbabwe, and she is a proud graduate of Alabama A&M University where she was a member of the women’s tennis team. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Auburn University. Dr. Bvunzawabaya's clinical interests include exploring issues related to minority mental health, body image concerns, sexual trauma, racial and ethnic identity development, and suicide prevention. She is strongly committed to promoting and exploring how issues of equity and inclusion are incorporated in all aspects of her practice.
batsirai.nmcs@gmail.com
Amanda R. Young, PhD. - Dr. Young (she/her/ikwe) is Hidasta from MHA Nation from Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and is Anishinaabe Ojibwe Ikwe from Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. She is currently working at Two Feathers Native American Family Services, where she currently provides clinical services to Native American youth and provides culturally respectable evaluation guidance for Two Feather's culturally grounded Native American youth programs. Dr. Young's passion focuses on bringing awareness and ultimately ending the suppressed epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives through research, advocacy, and community involvement.
amandaryoung.nmcs@gmail.com
Lauren Chapple-Love, Ph.D. (she, her, Dr.) a licensed counseling psychologist, is the owner of Elle Psychological Services in Las Vegas, Nevada. The organization specializes in diversity, equity, and inclusion training and consultation, offers psychotherapy services, and conducts forensic evaluations. She has lived in Las Vegas since 2018 and has been practicing as a mental health professional for more than a decade. Though everyone is deserving of mental health care, Dr. Chapple-Love's expertise in psychology has a strong emphasis on working with diverse populations, such as LGBTQ+ individuals and People of Color. Her work centers on understanding how these groups navigate and thrive in systems of oppression and within majority culture settings. As a national and state-wide legislative advocate in the field of psychology, Dr. Chapple-Love serves on the executive boards of multiple area nonprofits.
drcl.nmcs@gmail.com
Samantha LaMartine, PsyD (she/her), is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. Her work focuses on health psychology, early intervention in psychosis, and addressing mental health disparities rooted in systemic inequities.
samantha.nmcs@gmail.com
Emma Lombardi is a tribal descendant of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash in Santa Ynez California. Emma is the Language and Culture Programs Manager for her tribe and she is very involved in keeping the Chumash Samala language and culture flourishing. She has an AA in Communications, a BA in Liberal Studies, an MBA in Social Science, Nonprofit Resource Development and a Certificate in Event Planning. Emma’s philanthropic and event planning expertise have helped to generate over a million dollars in revenue for local nonprofits. In her spare time, she loves spending time with her family, being involved with her tribal community and volunteering at her childrens’ school.
emmal.nmcs@gmail.com
Tina Lincourt, PsyD is a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a Licensed Psychologist. Dr. Lincourt is currently serving as an Integrated Care Psychologist in Family Medicine in a rural community. Dr. Lincourt’s experience of working for Tribal 638 Organizations in Indian Country has provided her with a unique cultural approach to provide clinical services to individuals from disenfranchised communities who experience mild to severe mental illness, substance use, cooccurring health disorders, and other behavioral health concerns. Her work in these communities has further informed her approach to psychological and cognitive testing and test interpretation. She graduated from Loma Linda University as a Doctor of Psychology in 2018 and completed her APA accredited internship at Loma Linda's School of Medicine. It was during her internship rotation in integrated behavioral health that she witnessed frontline strategies in action that reduced health disparities within underserved communities through a whole-person care approach to wellbeing. Shortly after her postdoc ended, she was charged with developing and establishing integrated behavioral health across eight clinics at a tribal organization and bearing witness to the many benefits to patients flourish in these communities. Further, Dr. Lincourt’s enthusiasm for the discipline of psychology coupled with her passion for reducing mental health disparities with underserved populations has led her to serve on a number of committees including currently serving as the American Psychological Association (APA) as the Native American Member at Large for Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race). She is a past Chair of the Psychologists in Indian Country Section of the Public Service Division of APA, former Secretary of the Society of Indian Psychologists and the Society of Indian Psychologist’s 2019-2020 Fellow of the APA Council of National Psychological Associations for the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Interests (CNPAAEMI) Leadership Development Institute (LDI). Dr. Lincourt not only has a background in mental health but she also has experience working with adolescents in the juvenile justice system in a residential placement facility and former career experience as a program/management analyst for the Department of Defense, United States Marine Corps. She is currently pursuing her MS in Psychopharmacology at NMSU and is thrilled about how this pursuit may increase her capacity to serve others in the future.
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