Dr DAVID POWELL PhD

...is president of the Clinical Supervision Institute and has trained for the past 31 years on clinical supervision and other topics in 50 states and over 80 countries.

His seven books on health care and substance abuse are major texts in the field and his book, Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling (2004), is considered the primary book on the subject in the substance abuse field.

He has been the co-editor of the Journal of Chemical Dependency and serves on the editorial board of several journals. He holds four master’s degrees in psychology, counselling, Islamic Studies and medical ethics. He was a resident graduate at Harvard  University and holds a doctoral degree in counselling and psychology. He served on advisory boards of Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins University and taught at Princeton and Yale universities. He is the chair of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Treatment Improvement Protocol on Clinical Supervision #50.

 David has been in the counseling field since 1965 and is a certified clinical supervisor in the alcohol and drug abuse and in sex therapy fields. He is a licensed alcohol and drug abuse counsellor, licensed marriage and family therapist, and diplomat in the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine and Psychotherapy.

He is one of 100 persons in the US that began the EAP movement in 1972 and started in 1972 the first state EAP for New Jersey and 55,000 state employees and 110,000 municipal employees. He was a founding member of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association.