Katherine Young

I have been practicing psychotherapy professionally full-time for more than twenty years. Counselling was an early passion for me and I chose it as my first and only career. In the first few years, in addition to running a private practice, I provided individual and family counselling in a Community Family Counselling Agency and then with Vancouver Coastal Health Authority where I worked with adolescents and families experiencing mental health disorders. I worked in addictions at Fraser Health Authority, and under contract with Family Services of Greater Vancouver in their employment assistance program. I completed training in end of life counselling. Prior to completing my Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology at UBC, I worked in a shelter for women fleeing from domestic violence where I received invaluable experience and training in the cycle of abuse and the legal system. In private practice, it has been an honour to work very extensively with a wide variety of people from all different cultures, ethnicities and sexual orientations. More recently, I have expanded Head and Heart Counselling to include other practitioners I trust and admire. I now enjoy the experience of leading a group of talented, passionate therapists. Each of us brings together a contemplative lens with scientific rigor in our own unique way. I now enjoy writing about all I have experienced with a desire to pass on to others anything I have learned, and everything I don't know.