About Me
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"Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul" Carl Jung |
I have been working as a psychotherapist / counsellor for over 15 years, predominantly in not-for-profit community organisations and in private practice. In addition to providing generalist counselling and psychotherapy support to individuals, my therapeutic specialisation has been in relationship and family therapy.
I started my psychotherapy training in 2000 and since then have completed a Diploma of Individual, Couple and Family Therapy; an Advanced Diploma of Systemic Therapy; a Master of Couple and Family Therapy through the University of New South Wales, Sydney; and a Master of Social Work through Griffith University, QLD. I have been a board member of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy since February 2012.
My training in relationship and family therapy was not only academically rigorous, but also highly practical. I continue to receive monthly individual supervision, monthly peer group supervision and fortnightly group supervision/ training in Attachment Based Family Therapy for Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents. Professional supervision is a career long necessity for a clinician's professional development, reflective practice, to maintain professional ethics and to provide a quality service.
Over the last 17 years I have trained in many therapeutic modalities as part of my continuing professional development requirements. I am a clinical member and registered supervisor of the Australian Association of Family Therapy (OC098), and also a member of the Australian Association of Social Work (453243). Below are some of the additional professional training I have undertaken over the last 17 years.
I have been working as a psychotherapist / counsellor for over 15 years, predominantly in not-for-profit community organisations and in private practice. In addition to providing generalist counselling and psychotherapy support to individuals, my therapeutic specialisation has been in relationship and family therapy.
I started my psychotherapy training in 2000 and since then have completed a Diploma of Individual, Couple and Family Therapy; an Advanced Diploma of Systemic Therapy; a Master of Couple and Family Therapy through the University of New South Wales, Sydney; and a Master of Social Work through Griffith University, QLD. I have been a board member of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy since February 2012.
My training in relationship and family therapy was not only academically rigorous, but also highly practical. I continue to receive monthly individual supervision, monthly peer group supervision and fortnightly group supervision/ training in Attachment Based Family Therapy for Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents. Professional supervision is a career long necessity for a clinician's professional development, reflective practice, to maintain professional ethics and to provide a quality service.
Over the last 17 years I have trained in many therapeutic modalities as part of my continuing professional development requirements. I am a clinical member and registered supervisor of the Australian Association of Family Therapy (OC098), and also a member of the Australian Association of Social Work (453243). Below are some of the additional professional training I have undertaken over the last 17 years.
- The Clinical Use of Meditation: Metta Clinic
- Identifying and Responding to Risk of Harm – Advanced Level: Centacare Learning Network; Centacare, Sydney
- Carer Sensitive Counselling Workshop: Carers NSW (accredited)
- 25th Australian Family Therapy Conference
- Clinical Report Writing and Note Taking in Child Protection and Court Related Matters: Carol Boland
- Uses of Art and Play in Therapy: Rosa Bologna, Psychologist (15 hrs)
- Object Relations Couple and Family Therapy: David Scharff, M.D. and Jill Savage Scharff, M.D (15 hrs)
- Domestic Violence Assessment Training: Relationships Australia (NSW)
- Trauma workshop: Dr. Laurie McKinnon
- Frontiers of Trauma Treatment with Children and Young People: Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Australian Childhood Foundation
- Gestalt and Couple Therapy: Steve Vinay Gunther (14 hrs)
- The Art of Relationship Counselling: Doug Sotheren (70 hrs)
- Dual Diagnosis Training: TAFE, Lismore (28 hrs)
- 29th Australian Family Therapy Conference
- Case Management: Working with People with Complex Needs: DoCS
- Trauma and Attachment: Complex Care
- Triple P (group & seminar) Practitioner training (32 hrs) (accredited)
- Tweed Shire Integrated Response to Domestic and Family Violence Training
- Engaging Adolescents Practitioner Training: Parent Shop (accredited)
- 30th Australian Family Therapy Conference
- Transforming Childhood Trauma: Connecting with Empathy and Compassion: Dr. Bruce Perry
- 31st Australian Family Therapy Conference
- Passion and Presence: Using Mindfulness to Explore the Many Faces of Sexual Desire: Maci Daye, LPC And Halko Weiss, Ph.D (24 hrs)
- Introduction to Systemic Family Therapy Supervision: Suzanne Barr and Julie Wilson-Hirst (24 hrs)
- Enhanced and Pathways Triple P (parenting intervention for parents at risk of maltreating their children) Practitioner training (32 hrs) (accredited)
- A Systemic Approach to Clinical Supervision: Dr Paolo Bertrando, MD, PhD. (14 hrs)
- EMDR level 1 training (20 hrs)
- 34th Australian Family Therapy Conference
- Attachment Based Family Therapy For Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents Level 1 and 2: Queensland University of Technology and Drexel University, Pennsylvania USA (40 hrs)
- Attachment Based Family Therapy online group supervision (50 sessions x 1.5hrs fortnightly) with ABFT trainers from the USA, Dr. Suzanne Levy
Queensland University of Technology and Queensland Health, Child and Youth Mental Health Services, Assoc. Prof. Ingrid Wagner - 35th Australian Family Therapy Conference
Steve Marriott provides counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents who live in Bangalow, Byron Bay, Ballina, Mullumbimby, Lismore and surrounding areas, or online.
