Brady C. Malone, M.A. provides psychotherapy and psychological assessment for adults and couples seeking clarity about how personality, current life context, and past experiences contribute to their difficulties. He blends psychoanalytic theory with acceptance-based approaches to identify and resolve patterns of self-defeating behavior, helping clients translate insight into practical change.

His individual work is tailored to each client’s struggles and circumstances. He helps clients trace how problems developed, understand the emotional solutions behind symptoms, and build the agency needed to make meaningful progress. With extensive training in advanced psychoanalytic theory and health psychology, he attends to the interplay between mental and physical symptoms and how they can exacerbate one another.

Mr. Malone also works with couples, navigating complex partnership dynamics and offering an inclusive, nonjudgmental space for all individuals and relationship styles, including nonmonogamy and those in the queer and poly communities. He focuses on clarifying and addressing unexpressed emotions that drive arguments and recurring conflict.

Read below for more information on his areas of expertise and specialization.

Areas of specialization:

• Personality disorders
• Chronic depression and low self-esteem
• Divorce/separation and infidelity
• Persistent self-defeating, self-sabotaging, and masochistic behavior

Populations Served

• Adults (18+) and couples
• Queer and gender-diverse folk
• “workhorse” professionals and business owners
• High-masking autism and ADHD (AuDHD) folk

Educational & Clinical Experiences

• Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology – University of Detroit Mercy
• Limited licensed psychologist – Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan
• Limited licensed psychologist – Apex Therapy Services
• Limited licensed psychologist – Center for Mind and Personality
• Limited licensed psychologist – McLaren Port Huron Academic Center for Family and Internal Medicine

Selected Publications

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Huprich, S. K., & Malone, B. C. (2025). Characterological depressivity and Malignant Self-Regard. In B. S. Bach (Ed.), ICD-11 personality disorders: Assessment and treatment. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191964343.003.0010

Malone, B. C., & Huprich, S. K. (2023). Malignant self-regard as an overarching framework for the theory and treatment of depressive and masochistic (self-defeating) personalities. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 211(6), 460–466. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001646

Huprich, S. K., & Malone, B. C. (2022). Malignant self-regard: Overview and future directions. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 30(4), 226–237. https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000342

Malone, B. C., & Huprich, S. K. (2021). Critical differences in the treatment of depressive symptoms in narcissistic and depressive personalities. Medical Research Archives, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v9i4.2355

Malone, B. C., Huprich, S. K., Nicholas, A. E., & Ethridge, H. (2025, March 29–April 2). Simply not good enough: Maladaptive perfectionism and grit in the context of Malignant Self-Regard [Poster presentation]. 2025 SPA Convention and Workshops, Denver, CO. 10.13140/RG.2.2.13228.37767