Michael Marriott

• Comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment of clients attending service
• Family systems approach to supporting young people
• Highest quality evidenced based, trauma informed psychotherapeutic intervention for a wide range of youth mental health presentations
• Coordination of inbound and outbound referrals to other services
• Advocacy and capacity building for young people and their families
• Mentoring junior staff and students

• In reach coordination of care and navigation of services for rural school communities
• Health coaching
• Delivery of mental health promotion programs
• Development of live service mapping tools that ensure treatment matching for clients
• Risk assessment and treatment formulation

• Providing specialist youth drug and alcohol services via NSW Health at Byron Central Hospital.
• Delivering onsite and outreach clinical counselling and case management for clients 12-25 years old and their families
• Provision of 1:1 and group work as well as prevention, promotion and early intervention to young people and their families
• Established regular outreach clinics to secondary schools in the region
• Education workshops to youth services, parents and schools.

• Re established school counsellor youth and family mental health meetings
• Individualised in-school support for school counsellors/psychologist with at risk children and young people
• Assistance with navigating and engaging mental health services
• Early identification of mental health issues in primary, secondary and TAFE educational settings
• Supportive access to evidence informed early intervention programs in schools and TAFE
• Early access to specialist mental health services
• Support for the recovery journey of children, young people and their families

Short contract to develop and deliver outreach services to more difficult to engage, complex drug and alcohol client group

• Provide clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary clinical counselling and health promotion team
• Conduct regular individual child, youth, adult, group and family therapy sessions for all counselling needs
• Providing effective case management of complex cases and clinical supervision for senior and junior clinical counsellors
• Co facilitation of a weekly play group and youth group
• Deliver culturally aligned evidence based interventions informed by contemporary research in addiction studies, psychiatry, interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, mindfulness, trauma informed practice, existential, humanistic and cognitive behavioural therapies
• Lead and manage acute mental health crisis, support safety planning in conjunction with the treating team, families and other service providers
• Collaborate and refer to other service providers
• Strengthening the capacity of individuals and families to navigate their values based goals in the pursuit of optimal recovery
• Excellent stakeholder relationship development and maintenance, providing effective referral pathways and collaborations, maximising outcomes for clients

• Developed and delivered the full suite of mental health and general counselling services to drought affected communities in Far North Queensland
• Initiating new services to previously not serviced regions
• Delivered independent counselling services to the remote communities of Normanton, Greenvale, Mt Surprise, Einasleigh, Croydon, Georgetown and Forsayth
• Provided comprehensive psychotherapeutic intervention, crisis and case management services to children, young people, adults and families
• Delivered counselling services and prosocial groups for children and young people in conjunction with their families and their schools
• Developed and led educational workshops on mental health promotion, substance use and parenting topics to the rural and remote communities affected by drought
• Manage acute mental health crisis and support safety planning in conjunction with families and service providers
• Collaborate with Psychiatrist, General practitioners and multidisciplinary PHC team in providing synergised therapeutic outcomes

• Delivered the first successful transition of a Cape York Wellbeing service to local Aboriginal Community control
• Developed the first whole of family counselling program including perinatal, infant, child and youth counselling service in conjunction with the kindergarten and school
• Provided clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary counselling, health promotion and community development team
• Delivered mental health substance use and other counselling services within the unique cultural/language group context
• Developed psycho educational groups to enhance client, community and service provider functioning
• Including topics such as stages of change and mindfulness informed relapse prevention, complex developmental trauma, lateral violence and emotional competency skill development
• Conducted regular individual child, youth adult, group and family therapy sessions
• Providing effective case management of complex cases and clinical supervision for senior and junior clinical counsellors
• Delivered Nationally recognized mental health promotion activities

• 1 year placement with QLD Health including 7 months working with Remote Child and Youth Mental Health Service conducting assessment, intervention, review and referral with Children and their families in the remote Aboriginal communities of Aurukun, Hope Vale, Laura and Wujal Wujal
• Reporting requirements in accordance with National Mental Health Standards and Legislation
• Management of acute risk and the full spectrum of child and youth disorders in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team
• Culturally, developmentally and diagnostically targeted interventions implemented in conjunction with a family systems approach
• 5 months working with Alcohol and Tobacco, Other Drugs Service providing comprehensive drug and alcohol services including outpatient withdrawal management, counselling services, substitution therapies, prevention, promotion and early intervention programs
• Targeted psychological intervention to enhance movement through stages of change towards chosen substance use goals
• Co facilitation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy “Wise Choices Group.”
• Co facilitation of mindfulness based relapse prevention groups
• Court Reports for client's with criminal justice involvement
• Alcohol Diversion Program, Queensland Illicit Drug Initiative and other mandated client service delivery
• Outreach services for substance use clients in custody and their families

• Designed, developed, implemented and evaluated programs across two Cape York Communities that strengthened the capacity of traditional owners to deliver programs designed to reduce mental health and substance use issues and promote empowerment amongst young people in their communities of Wujal Wujal and Hope Vale
• Extensive consultation with a diverse array of community members, developing their responses into action plans and delivering the key performance outcomes in accordance with the communities expectations and the contract obligations
• Support Traditional Owners to deliver group programs such as Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid and Family Wellbeing
• Co-developed with traditional owners programs designed to shine the light on cultural assets, providing protective mechanisms against substance use/suicidal/self-harming behaviours among young people

• Developed, delivered and managed the first Personal Helpers and Mentors program in Aurukun
• Enhanced opportunities for recovery for Wik children, young people and adults with severe substance use and mental health issues
• Supported families with socioeconomic disadvantage sustain their support for family members with significant mental health issues
• Initiated and led the development of the first Wik Mungkan therapeutic tools, in collaboration with a project officer linguist and heritage language expert
• These included documents such as assessment and individual recovery plans
• Developed and maintained stakeholder relationships ensuring referral pathways to community service/agencies were maximised for service participants
• Delivered unique therapeutic interventions aligned with the diverse cultural and linguistic needs of the clients and families of the Wik nation
• Strengthened the capacity of local community members to deliver their services to their community
• Developed values based goal-oriented psychoeducational groups to improve client's level of functioning
• Created space for recovery and cultural renewal via cultural assets and activity
• Provided a platform for psychiatric care and medication compliance

• Provide clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary counselling, health promotion and community development team
• Delivered within the unique cultural/language group of the Guugu Yimithirr Nation
• Conducted regular individual, group and family therapy sessions; Providing effective case management of complex cases dealing with alcohol and other drug issues, violence for both perpetrator and survivors, , gambling, mental health issues such as suicidal/self-harming/homicidal behaviours,depression, anxiety, PTSD, complex trauma, transgenerational trauma, acute stress disorder, reunification of families with their children in the care of the department of Child Safety
• Developed therapeutic approaches utilising cultural assets to strengthen cultural identity while producing therapeutic outcomes for presenting conditions
• Delivered nationally recognised mental health promotion activities

• Alcohol and Drug Information/ Counselling Officer, providing telephone counselling and information provision for the Gambling Helpline, Alcohol and Drug Information Service, Hepatitis Helpline, Police Drug Diversion Initiative, Drug and Alcohol Clinical Advisory Service
• Community Health Clinical Nurse in the Pharmacotherapies Research Unit
• Provided duty counselling service and supported maintenance pharmacotherapies
• Community Health Nurse role providing inpatient withdrawal services for injecting and non injecting drug users
• Community based Drug and Alcohol Counselling service providing assessment, ongoing counselling and support, case management of pharmacotherapy maintenance clients, withdrawal management referral and supporting family members of substance users
• Court ordered mandated clients and the full spectrum of voluntary substance use clients

• 1 year Mental Health Nursing Graduate program conducted in conjunction with Graduate Diploma of Mental Health Nursing through the University of South Australia
• Worked as a Mental Health Nurse across the spectrum of mental health service delivery including- Assessment and Crisis Intervention Services, Mobile Assertive Care Services, Acute admissions wards and P.I.C.U

• Worked across inpatient and community mental health services as well as inpatient withdrawal services
• Provided the range of community and inpatient mental health services, including case management, medication dispensing, family support and recovery focused intervention
• Facilitate the provision of support and treatment for clients withdrawing from drugs and/or alcohol
• Utilised psychotherapeutic intervention combined with pharmacotherapy to enhance client's movement towards least harmful substance use goals
• Effective discharge planning and assertive follow up

• Worked in London, Scotland and France on medical/surgical wards and as a private nurse in home settings

• Worked as an independent practitioner, in a variety of settings from single nurse communities in Mt Liebig, Papunya, Willowra, Yuendumu and Peppimenarti
• Leading a multidisciplinary team to deliver comprehensive Primary Health Care services to the communities and outstations