About Dr. Rodney Harris

Founder and Director of The Onyx Healing Institute

Co-Founder - Village of C.A.R. E

Associate Professor, The Chicago School

Dr. Harris is a scholar-practitioner in the field of counselor education who divides his time between training, research and consulting outside Raleigh, NC. Dr. Harris is the Lead Intervention Scientist for the Onyx Healing Institute. He is the Co-Founder of the Village of C.A.R.E., a community based education organization. He also directs the Virtual Clinic Training Center for The Chicago School, Counselor Education and Supervision Program/Online (Associate Professor); one of the first telehealth graduate community health training clinics in the nation. He is a master licensed clinician, lead faculty and expert clinical supervisor and community traumatologist/suicidiologist.

Dr. Harris utilizes a community mental health model that identifies intervention points and creates safe/brave spaces to address mental and physical health disparities. This successful model has utilized the barbershop, religious entities, centers for the unsheltered and community centers as an intervention point (with a focus on Black and brown communities).

Dr. Harris is also an international conference speaker/workshop facilitator that contracts with federal, state, local, corporate and religious entities. He is a recognized expert on black youth suicide, complicated grief and generational trauma, multicultural supervision and group/community counseling.