Location
Indiana

Bio
Karen A. Duncan, M.A., LSW, LMFT is a licensed therapist, author and speaker known for her advocacy work in the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse and family violence. Her political interests began in the 1980's and continues into the present.

Ms. Duncan is the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding State Mental Health Professional Award from the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault and received the 2005 Social Worker of the Year Award for Region 7 from the National Association of Social Workers-Indiana and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Mental Health Counseling.

Duncan has been interviewed on the Today Show regarding reports on female sex offenders and quoted in The Tampa Tribune, Indianapolis Women Magazine, and The Daily Journal and has appeared on Channel 6 News, Fox 59, the Morning Show on WIBC Radio, the Mary Amoroso Show on Cable Network and on World Talk Radio for Darkness to Light.

Ms. Duncan is a national speaker in the area of criminal justice, violence and trauma, and substance abuse . Duncan received her Master of Arts Degree in Clinical Psychology from Ball State University and is licensed in social work and marriage and family therapy. She has served as an Adjunct Faculty member at Marian College and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in the departments of psychology and women studies and is currently an Adjunct Faculty at Ivy Tech Community College. Ms. Duncan was awarded Diplomate status in the American Psychotherapy Association, and she is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, American Mental Health Counselors Association, American Association of University Women and the Mid-West Regional Network for Intervention with Sex Offenders.

Her book "Healing from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Journey for Women" (Praeger, 2004) presents a gender-based framework that addresses the prolonged problems caused from sexual abuse, advocates for prevention education for parents and discusses how women face a moral and legal challenge to expose perpetrators who are protected against prosecution by existing state statutes of limitation. Ms. Duncan has written several articles on interpersonal trauma that include "The Forgotten Victims: Women, Trauma and the Criminal Justice System" published in Counseling Today by the American Counseling Association; A Partnership in Healing: Substance Abuse Treatment and Childhood Sexual Abuse published in Addiction Professional (Manisses Publishing, Vol. 3 (5) 2005).

Ms. Duncan is the founder of The Right to Be Safe, Org. a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse and family violence.