This course is geared toward any mental health practitioners or medical agencies seeking to gain greater competencies with creating, maintaining and practicing skills to become a more equitable and inclusive provider. This training provides didactic information pertaining to racial identity models, historical information about structural oppressive forces and definitions of key terms.

3 CEs to NYS LMHCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, LMSWs, LCATS , NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts provided by Hudson Valley Professional Development, LLC upon successful completion of training.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will understand the history of structural oppressive forces, learn about racial identity development models, and be able to define key terms related to race, power, and privilege.

2. Participants will become more aware of triggers that lead to avoidance, protectiveness, pseudo-care-taking, fragility, guilt, entitlement, and disavowal of oppressive forces.

In accordance with the NY State Department of Education guidelines, in order to receive continuing education contact hours, a participant needs to be present for the duration of the workshop/training. Therefore, participants who arrive late or leave the event early will not be granted a certificate of completion.

​Cancellation Policy: Refunds will be provided for cancellations made in writing up to three business days prior to the start of the event.

Accommodations and Accessibility: HVPD welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact us at info@hudsonvalleyprofessionaldevelopment.com to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Nyx Melody (Nicholas Moran), LMHC (they/them/theirs & fae/faer/faers) is a queer, panromantic, non-binary, trans femme New York State licensed mental health counselor, clinical supervisor, educator and consultant on anti-oppression, mental health, gender/sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ issues.

Nyx completed a dual Master’s degree: Master’s of the Arts in Psychological Counseling and a Master’s of Education in Mental Health Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University, where they took extensive course work and engaged in research initiatives surrounding queer and gender-expansive microaggressions/mental health concerns.

Nyx works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University teaching mental health counseling graduate students and is an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development teaching group dynamics, cross-cultural psychology, and lab for individual counseling skills to graduate students in mental health counseling.

As a supervisor, Nyx aims to assist supervisees and colleagues with developing culturally responsive approaches to therapy. Nyx has been a lifelong advocate and accomplice for dismantling oppressive systems, through which they are actively engaged in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives for two organizations: Montefiore Medical Center and Point Park University.