Andrew McKinnon

Graduate Diploma of Counselling

Completed: 2007

Specialisation: Counselling And Communication

Study mode(s): Distance Education

Please list professional membership(s): Australian and New Zeland College of Mental Health
Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association

Fieldwork Organisation(s): Acute Adolescent Unit of Redbank House

Description of your fieldwork placement(s): Counselling of adolescent patients in an acute psyhiatric facility.

Describe your ACAP experience: I found the distance education to be flexible and interactive, as Tutors were readily available.

How has ACAP benefited you personally or professionally? I have been able to utilize and refine counselling skills in my work environment.

How have you used your qualification? I continue to use my skills in my work place to date.

I had reached a point in life where I wanted to work with people in a meaningful way. This course will allow me to use all my life experience, make a living and be fulfilled as a human being. It has given me stability in an uncertain world.
Peter Byers
Graduate Diploma of Counselling