Karen Roller, PhD, MFT, FAAETS, DNCCM, CT, CFT, C-SCR, RYT

Karen/Karina Roller, PhD, MFT, is an Associate Professor of Counseling at Palo Alto University and Clinical Coordinator at a parent-involvement preschool system serving predominantly Spanish-speaking migrant families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Karina has spent her clinical career in family therapy through community mental health for the marginalized and underserved, including fostered youth, adjudicated youth, and the Latine/x migrant community, as well as international trauma training outreach in Haiti. She founded Bilingual Certification in Spanish for the Palo Alto University MA Counseling program, and co-authored Lifespan Development: Cultural and Contextual Considerations for the Helping Professions (Coker et al., 2023), where she centered force migration and other social determinants of health for underserved and marginalized families. Further publications focus on NSSI/suicide intervention training, trauma treatment and prevention approaches, language access and bilingual clinical pedagogy, and anti-oppressive service-learning. Karina is a Fellow with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, Diplomate with the National Center for Crisis Management, Certified Clinical Traumatologist and Compassion Fatigue Therapist, Certified in School Crisis Response, and a Registered Yoga Teacher. She is vice-president of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy; contributor to best practices development for the International Association of Resiliency and Trauma Counseling, and currently completing a 115-hour certification to become a Pre-and-Perinatal Educator. She is lead editor and author currently preparing Crisis and Trauma Skills Development: Culturally-Affirming Case Studies for Assessment, Treatment and Supervision Practice (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ToYeIMFUKSfsbXhyH2AEmZQzmj4QjJRe/edit)



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