Dougal Mckinnon

Kia ora. My name is Dougal McKinnon (he/him), by trade a Registered Nurse, worked in mental health areas both inpatient and community across a variety of ages and settings, commencing back in 2006 (20yrs!), and undertaking clinical supervision training initially in 2007 (Mike Considine Role Theory), and supervising other clinicians ever since. I have also undertaken further Te Whatu Ora based training within Dunedin Hospital and recently completed a level 5 cert in Supervising/Coaching/Mentoring (Supervision Skills for Health and Social Services Professionals (Micro-credential) (Level 5) QED Associates). The last 5 years I have been working as a youth counsellor for ADL/Thrive Counselling, an NGO with Offices in Timaru, Dunedin, Cromwell, and Invercargill. I work alongside our Rangatahi age mostly 12-24yrs, both in Brief Intervention Counselling and Addiction harm reduction work using Modalities such as ACT, SFT, MI, IDT, CBT and the like.