Karina Kerr
Karina loves family time, especially grandparenting sharing her life moto life is short eat dessert first, loves colour particularly purple but rainbows are amazing too! Like many who come into the helping field Karina comes with lived experiences that have enlighten the way she sees the world. Karina values, integrity, inclusion and compassion and aspires to live by these values, which includes self compassion acknowledging that you cant grow yourself without making mistakes and then doing the work to learn, grow and evolve, we are a constant work in progress. Karina is a proud dyslexic with different learning and processing abilities none of which has held her back from constantly learning.
As a practitioner and leader, Karina is committed to Trauma-Informed principles of safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment and respect for diversity. Karina holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Double Major in Sociology and Politics, (2005) a Master in Social and Organisational Leadership (2023) and a and Graduate certificate in Family Dispute Resoultion (2011). Karina has completed Clinical Supervision training and continuous professional development in family counselling, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and too much to list. Karina’s work history starts in early 2000 working in homelessness sector, and then moving to Upper Murray Family Care working with separated family training as a Dispute Resoultion Practitioner and then Manager of the Family Relationship Centre, moving on to Managing Headspace Albury Wodonga and Wangaratta, working with Gateway Health. Karina continues to grow her experience in Trauma-Informed practice in workforce development, leadership and mentoring and organisations development. Karina believes in constantly growing and learning through self-awareness and educational development leading to deciding to complete a Masters in Social Work (Professional Qualifying) 2024 with Charles Sturt University to improve skills.
Mental health is my passion from Trauma-Informed practice, to developing lived experience voices. Life is so complex filled with struggles, grief loss and unfilled expectations which amplifies loss and grief. Karina works within a narrative practice framework, allowing people to grow from their own experience, valuing the knowledge and skills they have and how to use the experiences to grow and learn. Karina works is experienced with providing supervision, working with workplace stress, organisational change, family conflict, family or relationship therapy and working with individuals to get to know their anxiety and make friends with why it is there. Karina has worked with people in different life stages from young people who are growing and learning about themselves, transitioning and trying to understand themselves, to parents seeking support to better understand their kids, and life span transitions.
