Because Now Matters Now

 

BIO

Dr. Ursula Whiteside is a licensed clinical psychologist, CEO of NowMattersNow.org and Clinical Faculty at the University of Washington. As a researcher, she has been awarded grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Clinically, she began her training with Dr. Marsha Linehan in 1999 and later served as a DBT-adherent research therapist on a NIMH-funded clinical trial led by Dr. Linehan. Dr. Whiteside is a group and individual certified DBT clinician. Now, she treats high-risk suicidal clients in her small private practice in Seattle using DBT and caring contacts.

Dr. Whiteside is national faculty for the Zero Suicide initiative, a practical approach to suicide prevention in health care and behavioral healthcare systems. This program was described by NPR on a segment titled “What Happens If You Try to Prevent Every Single Suicide?” She is also vice-president of United Suicide Survivors International.

As a person with Lived Experience, she strives to decrease the gap between "us and them" and to ensure that the voices of those who have been there are included in all relevant conversations: nothing about us without us.

 

Press

WRITTEN
Wondermind (1, 2), Allure, Crisis Now, CBS News, HuffPost, NPR, Washington Post, Reddit, University of Washington, Real Change, Market Watch,
Men’s Health, Thrive Global, Science Times, Washington Post,
Guideposts Magazine, Verizon, NIMH, AFSP Research, AFSP Blog, Kaiser, CQ Researcher, Rolling Stone 

PODCAST AND RADIO

The Intercept, Mind Wide Open with Lily Cornell Silver,
Q&A with Dr. Marsha Linehan, Therapy Show,
ImListening.org: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Hope Illuminated, KUOW

VIDEO

CURRICULUM VITAE

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