Kay Ingamells has been working therapeutically with individuals, children, young people, and families since 1990. She was an apprentice to David Epston from 2002-2015 and has presented and written alongside him for many years. In 2015 David and Kay founded the Narrative Apprenticeship Program together with Tom Carlson. Kay lectured in narrative therapy for ten years. She has published several articles and stories from her practice. Most recently she has been working with David on a course for Reauthoringteaching.com, teaches narrative therapy internationally, and is writing a book. Kay currently works in private practice in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She can be contacted at www.yourstory.org.nz or at https://narrativeapprentice.com/
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Kay Ingamells is a mother of one delightful son. She is a citizen of three countries: Aotearoa/New Zealand, Britain and Canada, and a Westie since 2001. Kay is daughter, sister, friend, tramper, cyclist, bookworm, and lover of nature and the great outdoors. Since 2003, she has been trained one-on-one and supervised by David Epston, one of the world’s leading therapists, and the co-developer of Narrative Therapy. She has also co-taught with David all over the world and currently runs a training programme in advanced narrative therapy with David and Dr Tom Carlson.
She has published widely about her work and presents regularly at conferences at home and internationally. She has taught therapy and counselling at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for ten years. She is a full member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) and the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW). Kay also trained family therapist, child therapist and Journey Practitioner. Kay is also a trained family therapist, child therapist and Journey Practitioner, who welcomes new referrals.
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David Epston, along with his close friend Michael White, was one of the originators of what came to be known as 'narrative therapy' — White and Epston(1990), Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends and Epston and White(1992), Experience, Contradiction, Narrative and Imagination. He has (co) authored 16 books, most recently Heath, Carlson and Epston(2022), Reimagining Narrative Therapy through Practice Stories and Autoethnography and Tejs Jorring with Alexander and Epston(2022), Narrative Psychiatry and Family Collaborations along with well over 150 published papers. He has taught widely throughout the world over the last 40 years and is co-leader of Apprenticeships in Narrative Artistry along with Tom Carlson and Kay Ingamells.
Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD is a clinical psychologist and author who is a leading expert on Bipolar Disorder. Her book Manic-Depressive Illness is the classic textbook on bipolar disorder. Her national bestselling memoir, An Unquiet Mind, details her experience living with severe mania and depression. She is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and has researched widely on medication adherence and suicide. She is also the co-director of the Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins.
Kayla Rees, LMHCA, is a Seattle-based mental health therapist working in community mental health. Her clinical areas of interest include working with sexual trauma, anxiety, body image, and sexual identity development, particularly in adolescents and young adults.
Keely Kolmes, PsyD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. She writes and speaks on the intersection of clinical care and social media and provides training and consultation to other mental health professionals on these topics. She is currently researching the impact of extra-therapeutic encounters on the Internet between therapists and their clients. She will be presenting at the 2010 APA Convention this August on a panel called Social Media and Psychology—Opportunities and Challenges for Practitioners. Her C.V. and blog are available on her website She keeps a blog specifically to help psychotherapists understand and manage social media: drkkolmes.com/blog/clinicians. She can also be followed on Twitter at twitter.com/drkkolmes.
Keith Fadelici, LCSW, has been providing psychotherapy for over 22 years in both private practice and agency settings. He co-authored a chapter in Strength and Diversity in Social Work with Groups based on his group work with adolescents with sexual behavior problems. Keith was the Assistant Director of Victim's Assistance Services in Westchester County, NY for approximately 13 years and then served with Safe Horizon as the Director of Clinical and Forensic Services in Brooklyn's Child Advocacy Center — one of highest volume CACs in the country. With his years of experience specializing in trauma treatment, Keith has also been published at Psychology Today and at The Good Men Project.
Keith Fadelici, LCSW, has been providing psychotherapy for over 22 years in both private practice and agency settings. He co-authored a chapter in Strength and Diversity in Social Work with Groups based on his group work with adolescents with sexual behavior problems. Keith was the Assistant Director of Victim's Assistance Services in Westchester County, NY for approximately 13 years and then served with Safe Horizon as the Director of Clinical and Forensic Services in Brooklyn's Child Advocacy Center — one of highest volume CACs in the country. With his years of experience specializing in trauma treatment, Keith has also been published at Psychology Today and at The Good Men Project.
W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. is a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco and San Rafael, CA. He specializes in working with teenagers and families, was the founder of the Bay Area Therapists Specializing in Adolescents, president of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, and is part of the Bay Area Oppositional and Conduct Clinic. In working with clients, he uses a family systems (e.g., Structural, Strategic, Emotionally Focused Therapy) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach based in a postmodern perspective (e.g., Narrative, Solution Focused). He also provides Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and neuropsychological assessments. You can learn more about him at www.drkeithsutton.com.
Kelsey Craig is a clinical social worker living and working in North Carolina. She recently graduated with an MSW degree from the University of Pennsylvania and worked for a year in Philadelphia at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Currently, she is working as a licensed clinician at an inpatient facility in Winston-Salem, NC. Outside of work, she is “a huge animal person” who loves to ride horses and has two wonderful dogs.
Dr. Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, mDiv, is a Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America. A prolific author, Dr. Doka’s books include Grieving beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Woman Mourn; Counseling Individuals with Life-Threatening Illness; Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow; and Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice. In addition to these books, he has published over 100 articles and book chapters. Dr. Doka is editor of Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying and Journeys: A Newsletter to Help in Bereavement. He has served as a consultant to medical, nursing, funeral service and hospice organizations as well as businesses and educational and social service agencies. Dr. Doka is also an ordained Lutheran minister.