About Keianna Rae (KR) Harrison-Williams
Keianna Rae (KR) Harrison-Williams, MA, CSAYC, is a speaker, trainer, workshop facilitator, youth and family behavioral health professional, educator, entrepreneur, and community-based leader. Her work centers children, adolescents, teens, families, and the adults and systems responsible for helping young people move toward safety, accountability, healing, and practical skill-building.
KR brings more than two decades of experience across youth-serving programs, education, communications, community-based behavioral health, juvenile justice-informed work, workforce development, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Her career has consistently centered people, possibility, and the systems that shape whether families and young people can access real support.
Mental Health + Youth Services Background
KR’s mental health and youth services background includes school-based behavioral health, outpatient counseling support, day treatment, youth crisis support, group facilitation, juvenile justice-informed experience, practice leadership, and youth development programming. Her work has included support for youth with behavioral, emotional, family, school, safety, and system-involvement needs. A key area of her professional focus is CSAYC-informed support for youth with problematic sexual behaviors and sexually maladaptive youth. KR’s work in this area includes attention to boundaries, safety, accountability, trauma, caregiver support, family-centered planning, and collaboration with the adults and systems around the youth.
Clinical Direction
KR is currently pursuing a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Butler University, with licensure planned for December 2027. Her clinical direction is focused on children, adolescents, teens, families, and youth-serving systems, with a specialty interest in youth with problematic sexual behaviors, juvenile justice-involved youth, crisis-responsive support, and practical mental health skills building.
Communication, Leadership + Community Roots
Before and alongside her behavioral health work, KR built a career in communication, education, and leadership. Her background includes journalism, public relations, teaching, curriculum development, program development, business ownership, and nonprofit leadership. This mix of experience shapes the way she works: clear communication, real-world problem solving, strong facilitation, and a deep respect for community context.
Workforce Development + Community Impact
KR is also the founder of HER Home Design Academy, a workforce development initiative creating pathways into design-build careers, construction trades, architecture, interior design, remodeling, and hands-on learning. Through this work, she has supported youth empowerment, mentorship, career readiness, practical skill-building, and community-based opportunity.
For KR, workforce development and mental health are connected. Young people need skills, structure, trusted adults, safe spaces, and meaningful opportunities. When those pieces come together, confidence and stability have room to grow.
Approach
KR’s approach is practical, strengths-based, trauma-informed, culturally aware, and family-centered. She believes young people need both accountability and care. Families need honest support and usable tools. Systems need clear communication, collaboration, and people who understand how to bridge the gap between what looks good on paper and what actually works in real life.
Professional Focus Areas
Youth crisis support
Juvenile justice-informed work
School-based behavioral health
Outpatient counseling support
Day treatment experience
Family-centered care
Professional Focus Areas
CSAYC-informed youth and family support
Youth with problematic sexual behaviors
Parent and caregiver support
Group facilitation
Speaking, training, and workshops
Youth development programming
Workforce development
Community leadership
Sexually maladaptive youth
Children, adolescents, teens, and families
Mental health skills building