Dan L. Mitchell -- Curriculum Vitae

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Dan L. Mitchell, MA, Canadian Certified Counsellor

North Vancouver, B.C.

778-838-6824 (77-88-eTouch)

Vocational History

1994 to present	Founder and President, Worldwide Therapy Online Inc. Responsibilities: pioneering an innovative form of psychotherapeutic service delivery via the internet, delivery of cybercounselling services, course design and instruction of counsellor education, eSupervision, business management, web site development, policy and procedural development for highly ethical and professional delivery of online counselling.
1989 to present	Counsellor, B.C. Addictions Services, Surrey, B.C. Responsibilities: individual, couple, family, and group therapy, case management (intake, comprehensive assessment, referral, treatment planning), consultation with and educational training for community organizations, development of comprehensive range of services, clinical supervision, report writing, program design, designing computer solutions to accommodate clinical processes.
1989 to 1998	Prevention Coordinator, B.C. Addictions Services, Surrey, B.C. Responsibilities: public education, community development, prevention and health promotion Responsibilities: oversee and direct counselling centre operations among a team of commission members.
1987 to 2000	Counsellor, Vancouver Christian Counselling Centre, Vancouver, B.C. Responsibilities: provide individual and couples counselling, assessment and referral.
1988 - 1989	Research Assistant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Responsibilities: data collection, coding, statistical analysis, and report writing. Research Topic: Parental Influences in the Career Development of Adolescents.
1985 - 1987	Support Worker, Community Living Society, Vancouver, B.C. Responsibilities: helping mentally challenged adults develop their sense of integration into society, facilitating successful employment experiences for clients, building their self esteem and autonomy.

Education

1987 - 1989	University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. M.A., Counselling Psychology Specializing in marriage and family therapy Program approved by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Program Thesis title: Family environment and young adults' evaluations of parental influences in career development: An exploratory study.
1983 - 1985	University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. B.A., Psychology.
1982 - 1983	Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C.
1981 - 1982	Okanagan College University, Kelowna, B.C.

Additional Training

Experiential Systemic Therapy and Supported Feedback Therapy (Supervision). Drs. Friesen, Grigg, and Newman; Surrey Addictions Services. 400 hours, 1989 through 1993.

Addiction Counselling Training. B.C. Ministry of Labour. 35 hours, 1990.

Level I Supervisor Training. B.C. Ministry of Health. 35 hours, 1993.

Summer Institute on Health Promotion and Planning. Dr. Larry Green et al.; UBC Institute for Health Promotion. 35 hours, 1995.

Provincial Prevention Symposium. Workshops and instructors including Dr. Larry Green, Robert Simpson; B.C. Min. of Health. 28 hours, 1995.

Narrative Therapy Conference. Workshops and instructors including David Epston, Michael White; Yaletown Family Therapy. 24 hours, 1995.

Presentation Skills. B.C. Min. of Health. 14 hours, 1996.

Narrative Therapy Conference. Workshops and instructors including David Epston, Steve Madigan; Yaletown Family Therapy. 24 hours, 1996.

International Counselling Congress. Various workshops and instructors; Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association. 8 hours, 1996.

Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association National Conference. Various workshops and instructors including William Glasser and Albert Ellis; 24 hours, 1998.

Seventh National and Fifth International Conference on Information Technology and Community Health. University of Victoria; 24 hours, 1998.

Dual Diagnosis Training. B.C. Ministry for Children and Families; 14 hours, 1999.

Pacific Institute on Addiction Studies. Alcohol-Drug Education Service, The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Motivational Interviewing; 10 hours, 2000.

Early Psychosis Initiative. B.C. Ministry for Children and Families, Early identification of psychosis; 3.5 hours, 2000.

Problem Gambling Training, Level I. B.C. Ministry for Children and Families;
21 hours, 2000.

Going for Gold: International Career Development Conference, 21 hours, 2001.

Solution Oriented Therapy, Bill O'Hanlon; 14 hours, 2001.

Youth Mental Health and Youth Addictions Joint Training. B.C. Ministry of Health Services, 14 hours, 2002.

Nonviolent Communication (Compassionate Communication.) Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.; 14 hours, 2004.

Marsha M. Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Fraser Health Authority, 30 hours (readings and 10-week ad hoc study group), 2005.

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention, Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc., 8 hours, 2006.

Conference Presentations

Presenter: Internet-Based Counselling: Ethical and Practical Considerations. Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association National Conference, 1998.

Co-presenter, Paper presentation: When writing helps to heal: e-mail as therapy. Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association National Conference, 1998.

Co-presenter, Paper presentation: Confronting the challenges of therapy online: A pilot project. Seventh National and Fifth International Conference on Information Technology and Community Health, 1998.

Co-presenter, Crackerbarrel session: TherapEmail. Going for Gold: International Career Development Conference, 2001.

Co-presenter: E-mail Counselling: Skills for Maximum Impact. Going for Gold: International Career Development Conference, 2001.

Co-presenter: Reading Culture in Text: Diversity Counselling Online. ACA/CCA Annual Convention, 2006

Workshops Presented

Co-facilitator, Workshops entitled Parents As Preventers. Conducted in numerous schools throughout Surrey, B.C. 1994 through 1996.

Facilitator, Numerous workshops on issues related to alcohol and drug misuse targeting adults in the Surrey B.C. community. 1989 through 1996.

Facilitator, Workshop entitled Internet-Based Counselling. For graduate students in the Department of Counselling Psychology, University of British Columbia, 1998.

Facilitator, Workshop entitled Internet-Based Counselling: Ethical and Practical Considerations. Meeting of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Western Canada Chapter, 1998.

Co-Presenter: Colloquium entitled Spanning the Distance: The use of telecommunications to deliver mental health services. Presented on behalf of the Faculty of Education, Telehealth Research Incubator project, University of British Columbia, 2002.

Professional Membership

Canadian Counselling Association

Member in good standing since 1989
Canadian Certified Counsellor

Publications

Mitchell, D. L. & Murphy, L. J. (2004) E-mail rules! Organizations and individuals creating ethical excellence in telemental-health. In J. Bloom & G. Walz (Eds.) Cybercounseling and Cyberlearning: An ENCORE. CAPS Press and American Counseling Association.

Mitchell, D. L. & Murphy, L. J. (2002). Ethics, e-mail, and the counselling profession. Cognica: the Canadian Counselling Association's Newsletter, 34 (2), 10-14.

Collie, K., Mitchell, D. L., and Murphy, L. J. (2000). E-mail Counseling: Skills for Maximum Impact. ERIC Digest.

Collie, K., Mitchell, D. L., and Murphy, L. J. (2000). Skills for Online Counseling: Maximum Impact at Minimum Bandwidth, in Walz, G. R. & Bloom, J. (Eds.), Cybercounseling and Cyberlearning: Strategies and Resources for the Millennium.

Mitchell, D. L. & Murphy, L. J. (1998). Confronting the challenges of therapy online: A pilot project. Proceedings of the Seventh National and Fifth International Conference on Information Technology and Community Health; Victoria, Canada.

Mitchell, D. L. and Murphy, L. J. (1998). The practice of therapy online. Cognica: the Newsletter of the Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association.

Murphy, L. J. and Mitchell, D. L. (1998). When writing helps to heal: e-mail as therapy. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 26 (1), 21-32.

Mitchell, D. L. (1993). When the values of clients and counsellors clash: Some conceptual and ethical propositions. Canadian Journal of Counselling,27 (3), 203-211.

Mitchell, D. L. (1989, November). Young adults' perceptions of parental attempts to influence their careers. Matrix: The Counselling Psychology Newsletter, p. 7.

Mitchell, D. L. (1989). Family environment and young adults' evaluations of parental influences in career development: An exploratory study. Master's thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

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