SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE STRATEGIST

PSYCHOTHERAPIST

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THERAPIST

Dr. White helps clients live lives they love.

Do you want more joy and peace in your life?

By learning to manage stress, set boundaries, and align your life with what matters to you, you can create more joy and peace every day.

Do you want a practitioner with lived experience of mental health struggles?

Inspired by her own mental wellness journey of recovery and resilience, Ruth is a Toronto-based registered social worker who provides culturally-aligned psychotherapy for residents of Ontario & Alberta.

Are you seeking a therapist who considers all of you?

Dr. White takes a holistic approach - mind, body and spirit - through the lens of each client’s unique social, economic, cultural, and faith context. Therapy approaches include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, humanistic, positive psychology, narrative therapy, and mindfulness.

Feeling overwhelmed, stressed or burnt out? Experiencing compassion fatigue as a helping professional such as a social worker, nurse, doctor, or caregiver?

Dr. White specializes in helping you create boundaries that keep you doing what you love, while protecting your peace. Dr. White writes a Substack newsletter where she discusses science-backed stress relief, burnout prevention, and workplace wellbeing insights.

Diagnosed with AD(H)D or bipolar disorder?

Ruth has decades-long lived experience of thriving with these diagnoses. This gives her a unique perspective, deep empathy and understanding of these struggles, with practical insight into strategies that work.

Struggling with issues related to identity, such as gender, sexuality, or race/ethnicity/culture, including inter-cultural & inter-generational issues?

Dr. White provides guides your healing through trauma, and helps you build confidence and self-esteem, and learn communication skills that help you connect in healthy ways with family, friends and colleagues.

Are you navigating challenging relationships, work-life stress, reproductive health issues, menopause, or caregiving responsibilities?

Dr. White helps you prioritize your needs and well being, while helping you maintain healthy relationships.

Is academia pushing you to your limit?

Dr. White will guide and support you to tenure or graduation without surrendering your identity, values or wellbeing.

Does Dr. White provide consultations?

YES she does! Reach out for a FREE 15-minute consultation.

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SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE STRATEGIST

Build sustainable performance without burnout

Ruth C. White, PhD MPH MSW RSW is a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, mental health advocate and subject matter expert, who delivers engaging talks and workshops that educate, inspire, motivate, and transform people & organizations.

Topics for keynotes and workshops include:

• The Sustainable Performance Framework (signature talk)

• Burnout Prevention and Recovery

• Healing From Compassion Fatigue

• Mental Health Strategies That Work - at Work

• Leading and Serving Diverse Populations in Health and Mental Health.

• Customized options for your audience and topic.

Reach out here to book a consultation to see how we can make your event a memorable one. Or we can go beyond a talk, workshop or panel to build an advisory partnership.

Past organizational clients include: JPMorgan Chase, PwC, Aetna, Premera Blue Cross, Ontario Public Service, Applied Materials, Government of Canada, Protiviti, Indeed, Rotman School of Management, Unity Health Network, Global Strategy Lab, Maryland Commitment to Veterans, Alaska Airlines, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, NAACP, Blue Shield California, Commonwealth Club of California, Los Angeles County Dept of Mental Health, Lime Connect, National Organization on Disability, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, University of California-Berkeley, International Bipolar Foundation, and more.

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WRITER & MEDIA CONTRIBUTOR

Mental health advocacy and education

Written and spoken words on sustainable performance, mental health at work, burnout, stress management, compassion fatigue, and the mental health of women and immigrants of color.

Where can you find Dr. White’s writing?

Dr. White has written articles on mental health for: Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Tracy Anderson Magazine, Modern Healthcare, the United Nations, HuffPost and Thrive Global. She is the author of two books on stress management including The Stress Management Workbook: De-stress in 10 minutes or less, and two books on bipolar disorder. More of her writing can be found here.

Read Dr. White’s Substack newsletter Be Well and Wander in which she shares wellness strategies; travel tips, and whatever has her ranting or raving at the moment.

What is Dr. White’s media experience?

Dr. White’s media appearances include: The Today Show, BBC World Service, CBSNews LA, KRON4 TV Bay Area (appearing 30+ times as mental health commentator 2020-2025), WVON (Chicago), Utah Public Radio, Marie Claire, and Women’s Health; providing commentary as a subject matter expert on mental health, and issues of fairness, access, inclusion and representation. Find more clips here.

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

— Victor E. Frankl

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