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

Karen is the Director of the Windz Centre (www.windzcentre.com). 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.