Dr. Harris is a scholar-practitioner in the field of counselor education who divides his time between training, research and consulting outside Raleigh, NC. 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.