Windz Centre Staff

                           Karen Young, M.S.W., R.S.W.                              Angela Miceli
                          Director                                                                 Marketing & Communications Specialist

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

Karen is the Director of Windz Centre. She organizes and designs training, teaches the Windz workshops and certificate programs, oversees research projects, provides narrative supervision for individuals and groups and consults and trains walk-in clinics. For over 16 years, Karen supervised and provided single session therapy at a walk-in therapy clinic. 

Karen has provided consultation and clinical training to many organizations in Ontario, across Canada, and internationally regarding re-structuring service pathways to include brief services such as walk-in clinics. She has been teaching narrative and brief narrative therapy for over 30 years and is a therapist with 36 years of experience working with children and families. Karen has contributed numerous publications regarding applications of brief narrative therapy and research in brief services and walk-in therapy. She co-authored the Brief Services policy paper for the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (Duvall, J., Young, K., Kays-Burden, A., 2012), No more, no less: Brief Mental Health Services for Children and Youth. Karen was the lead in the first in Ontario Brief Services Evaluation Project, 2014, a multi-organization evaluation of brief services.

Karen has a great deal of knowledge and passion for narrative practices and is one of the few trainers who can teach the traditional aspects of the approach and new evolutions in the thinking.  She has particular expertise in the application of narrative in brief and walk-in therapies. Karen is regarded as a trainer who conveys narrative ideas in very clear and useable ways.


Angela Miceli
Marketing & Communications Specialist

Angela is the Marketing and Communications Specialist at the Windz Centre, serving as the primary point of contact for all our programs and trainings. In addition, Angela oversees the planning, development, and implementation of all of our marketing and communications.

With a background in administration and marketing, Angela utilizes her strong organizational skills to manage the day-to-day operations of the Windz Centre.