Shirley Young is an Aboriginal woman descending from the Nukunu people in South Australia. She is the proud mother of two children and the Director of Two Worlds Consultancy and co-director of Endless Eden. 

Shirley has completed a Bachelor of Social Work-Honours, Diploma of Narrative Approaches in Counselling and a variety of formal and industry specific training. She has worked in various Public Service organisations over a span of 24 years in portfolios such as Health, Child Protection and Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 

For the last five years she has been running a private practice called Two Worlds Consultancy across the state that contracts services for reunification, provides therapeutic support to children in Out of Home Care, providing supervision to staff in government and non-government organisations, contracting services to the NDIS sector, delivering corporate training and development packages, writing corporate documents, lecturing to university Social Work students on a variety of topics.

Currently Shirley is undertaking training in Mindful birthing with the intention to deliver mindful birthing programs to the Aboriginal community.