Be a Family Therapist

David is a practising Family & Couple Therapist with over 40 years of experience in mental health services. He is the founding director of The Delta Clinic since 2010, a private "one-stop therapy centre" specializing in Child & Adolescent Mental Health in Sydney, Australia.

 

Since 2013 David has conducted numerous parenting seminars and workshops and has organised 5 symposiums in Penang, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur. David launched the inaugural Graduate Certificate of Family Therapy Program in 2015. To date, he has trained over 100 health professionals in family therapy. In early 2021, David and his associates set up the Andolfi Family Therapy Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Professor Maurizio Andolfi is the Honorary Consultant to the centre.

 

David has over 30 years of clinical experience working with children and adolescents with serious emotional, behavioural, and mental health problems along with their families. He was the senior nursing manager of Redbank House, a specialist mental health tertiary service for children & adolescents in Western Sydney. He has worked for 15 years in the Catholic school system as an outreach family therapist and school counsellor. David has a special interest in working with ADHD and family systems, and also school refusal and school systems. In his role as a clinical nurse consultant and family therapist in a major teaching hospital, he has developed an innovative and systemic approach when working with suicidal, depressed adolescents who have attempted suicide at a time of crisis. David has presented at local, national and international conferences. In May 2021, David was an invited keynote speaker on the topic of school refusal at the NSW Australian Independent Christian School for School Counsellors in Sydney, Australia.

 

David was a subcontracted lecturer & clinical supervisor with the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, a prestigious training organisation under the Department of Health, NSW, Australia for over 3 years. He has also provided family therapy as an elective for the Master of Counselling Program at Excelsia University in Sydney. He is a clinical member & accredited clinical supervisor with the Australian Association of Family Therapy.

 

David has had supervision with Professor Bryanne Barnett, Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist who is an authority on attachment for the last 10 years. Since 2005, David has been having ongoing advanced training and supervision under the guidance of Professor Maurizio Andolfi, master family therapist and trained child psychiatrist. He has attended the Intensive Experiential Clinical Practicum and “the use of self of the therapist” in therapy at the prestigious Accademia di Psicoterapia Familiare in Rome, Italy. In 2016, David was invited to attend the Supa-meta Praticum in Todi, Umbria, Italy with 18 family therapists from around the world and in 2020 was invited as part of the supervision group with European Family Therapist for one year.

 

David, together with Professor Maurizio Andolfi launched the inaugural Graduate Diploma in Multi-generational Family Therapy at Delta Clinic, Sydney, Australia in 2017 and in March 2020 in Malaysia.