Dr. Karen Williams is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in PTSD and other trauma-related syndromes, with extensive experience supporting survivors of family violence and sexual assault. She champions gender equity through a range of roles including as Special Advisor on Mental Health at the Illawarra Women’s Health Centre, the Family Violence Network Committee of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Williams is also the founder of Doctors Against Violence Towards Women, a charity and advocacy group dedicated to advancing the mental and physical safety of women affected by violence. In recent years Dr Williams was instrumental in the conceptualisation and establishment of Australia’s first women’s-only hospital dedicated to the treatment of the psychological and psychiatric consequences of trauma - Ramsay Clinic Thirroul as well as the first publicly-funded Illawarra Womens Trauma Recovery Centre, currently operating in Shellharbour. Dr Williams also played a key role in the establishment of Coercive Control Legislation in NSW leading to the criminalisation of coercive control in intimate partner relationships.