Facing Imposter Syndrome: Providing Mental Health Tools for Practitioners, Students, and Firms - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Maci Nelson is a landscape designer, educator, and podcaster based in Cleveland, Ohio. She is dedicated to introducing diverse voices into the field of landscape architecture. Since 2020 she has hosted and produced The Landscape Nerd Podcast. Through this platform, she investigates the intersection of landscape architecture and pop culture to help the public find a connection to the landscape architecture profession. She uses social media as a part of her practice to demonstrate how storytelling communicates design intent and processes. Her multimedia practice has now become a globally streamed and viewed resource for thousands of students and young professionals.

The son of a Black man raised in Texas and a Thai woman who immigrated to America, Myron Nelson knows what it’s like to feel differently from the people around you. Myron has spent the last decade trying to understand his own depression and help others overcome theirs. He owns a private psychotherapy practice in Chicago, Black Tie Therapy, which focuses on treating the overlap between race and depression. He founded a consulting company, The Middle Path Consulting, that helps minority therapists improve their clinical skills and grow their businesses. Myron also writes a blog for Psychology Today on depression.