Associate Program Director (Research)
Christine Hellen Mhina is the Associate Program Director (Research), Master of Counseling, at City University of Seattle. She obtained her PhD in International and Intercultural studies at the University of Alberta. She has 18 years of teaching experience. She joined the faculty at CityU’s Master of Counselling Program in 2008. She has 18 years of teaching experience. She joined the City U in Edmonton to teach in the Master of Counseling Program since 2008 and began her role as an Associate Program Director in February 2018.
In her new role, Christine brings her extensive experience of working with diverse learners, advocating for marginalized social groups, participatory mentorship, and teaching. She teaches Counselling Psychology: Research Project, Qualitative Research Methods in Counseling Psychology, and Professional Ethics and Law.
Christine has vast experience integrating diverse perspectives to bring about social change. In her doctoral research, Christine conducted a participatory action research at a local community in Tanzania to examine Indigenous women’s capacity to advocate for their rights to agricultural land. Her current research interests include the topics of collaborative approaches to address mental health, Indigenous way of knowing, community resilience and qualitative participatory research methods. She has published book chapters that appear in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development Education and Culture (2010); Participatory Action Research, and Social Change (2009), Global Perspectives on Adult Education (2009), and in Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education and Higher Education Perspectives.