Karen Young, M.S.W., R.S.W.

Karen is the Director of the Windz Centre. She designs and organizes trainings, provides narrative therapy supervision and consults and trains for many organizations and walk-in therapy clinics. For over 16 years Karen supervised and provided single session narrative therapy at a walk-in therapy clinic.

Karen has been teaching narrative therapy for over 31 years and is a therapist with 37 years of experience. She has particular expertise in the application of narrative in brief and walk-in therapies. She has many publications regarding applications of narrative therapy and research in brief services including the Brief Services policy paper for the Ontario government (Duvall, J., Young, K., Kays-Burden, A., 2012) and the Brief Services Evaluation Project, 2014, a multi-organization evaluation of walk-in therapy services.