Welcome to the
✨BWELL Lab✨
A Collective of Scholars Promoting Wellness for Women of Color
Identity. Mental Health. Counseling.
The Black Women’s Wellness (BWell) Lab is directed by Dr. Martinque K. Jones. The goal of the BWell Lab is to study sociocultural factors that influence mental health and counseling with women of color. Within this broader area, the lab focuses on three topic areas and addresses three main questions:
a) Identity – how do women of color come to understand their intersected race and gender, including how they navigate stereotypes and tropes about their group?
b) Identity-Based Mistreatment & Mental Health – what are the unique sociocultural factors (e.g., racial discrimination) that influence the mental health of women of color?
c) Counseling – what are culturally-responsive counseling interventions that may effectively support wellness for women of color?
To address these topic areas, the lab draws upon intersectionality as a guiding framework and employ various methodologies, including mixed and qualitative methods.
Martinque K. Jones, PhD
Martinque "Marti" Jones, PhD is a licensed psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology's Counseling Psychology Program at the University of North Texas. She is also co-founder of the SBW Wellness Collaborative. She earned her PhD in counseling psychology at the University of Houston and completed an APA-accredited internship at the University of Florida Counseling & Wellness Center. She also completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Michigan and Teachers College, Columbia University.
Current Doctoral Lab Members
Melissa Briones, M.A., M.S., 7th Year
Amber Williams, M.S., 5th Year
Cassandre Jean-Ceide, M.S., 5th Year
Dionne R. Regis, M.A., Ed.M.. 3rd Year
Raven Gipson-Washington, M.A., 2nd Year
Quanisha Whittfield, M.A., M.S., 4th Year
Lab Members
Dae Moya, B.S.
“No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough.”
— bell hooks