Trainers and Consultants

Karine is a passionate practitioner, consultant, and educator with over 20 years of experience in the social work field. Her work is informed by an understanding of how trauma and oppression impact our bodies and communities. Karine has extensive training in trauma-informed therapeutic approaches, clinical supervision, and leadership. She is also adept at helping frontline workers and other practitioners deepen their skills and align their work with their values.

Karine has worked in a wide variety of settings and roles including director of counselling for a gender-based violence clinic, consultant, street outreach worker, therapist, youth worker, and social work instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University and George Brown College. Her approach is guided by a social justice, anti-colonial, queer/trans affirming, and strengths-based lens. As a trainer, Karine takes a trauma-informed approach to create brave, reflective learning spaces. She interweaves practical examples, humour, and an ethic of care into all her training, and believes in a world where everyone should be able to live with dignity, safety, and belonging.