Karen Young

Karen Young M.S.W.

Karen is a faculty member with Brief Therapy Training Centres International, teaching in the Institute’s new Narrative Therapy Training Program and in the year-long clinical extern program.  She is the Manager of Clinical Services at Halton Child and Youth Services in Burlington where she provides Narrative supervision to staff and single session therapy services at the agency’s Walk-in therapy clinic.  She is a therapist with 22 years of experience working with children and families and has situated her therapeutic conversations within Narrative Therapy practices for 17 years.  Karen has provided Narrative training to many agencies across southern Ontario and assisted several to plan and initiate their own walk-in clinics.   She is also the interview Editor for the Brief Therapy Network newsmagazine, and has published an article titled “When All the Time You Have Is Now” in the recent book:  Catching the Winds of Change: A Collection of brief and narrative papers and conference proceedings.  Karen has a great deal of passion and excitement for Narrative ideas and practices and is regarded as a trainer who conveys these ways of thinking and being in very clear and useable ways.  She has developed her own versions of Narrative therapy maps and diagrams of conversational practices that have the effect of crystallizing theories/ideas/practices in ways that create “aha” moments for participants in her workshops.  Karen enjoys spending the rest of her time canoeing, camping, and walking the trails with her partner and their dog.