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MSW, LCSW-A
Research Instructor

Location:

UNC Hospitals – Chapel Hill

Education and Training:

BA, Psychology and Political Science, Duke University
MSW, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Summary:

Karen Burns is Program Director for the North Carolina Psychiatric Access Line. Before joining UNC, she spent over a decade working in clinical and research settings managing large-scale initiatives in the areas of mental health and positive youth development, most recently focusing on interventions for children of incarcerated parents and, before that, support programs for teen parents in rural North Carolina. Her clinical interests include perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, parenting support through attachment-based approaches, and suicide prevention in adolescent girls.