Joanna Cheek
Class of 2021
Joanna Cheek is a Canadian psychiatrist who works to change the healthcare system instead of complaining about it, creating innovative programs to transform the way we deliver mental healthcare services. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor and award-winning teacher at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine. As a researcher, physician, meditation teacher, therapist, and educator of diverse styles of psychotherapy, she is an integrator who seeks to find a common language within a siloed field. She explores mental health as rooted in complex social factors, hoping to decrease the stigma that is so often misplaced on the individuals who suffer rather than the ailing society around them.
It’s Not You. It’s the World
From despair to hope: After COVID’s toll on mental health, more Canadians may soon be able to access care
After incidents where ex-partners killed their children, laws and attitudes within Canada’s court system are beginning to change about dangerous parents
Smiling to death: The hidden dangers of being ‘Nice’
We gave them our leftover frozen embryos. Now, we’re a family.
The lonely life of a wildfire lookout in northern Alberta
Misinformation Is A Public Health Crisis—So Let’s Treat It That Way
‘Paradigm shift’ needed to deal with mental-health catastrophe
‘Cold water, warm community’: For some, winter swimming has become an antidote to pandemic isolation
Sex and ‘fighting for joy’ amid the pandemic
The scientist and the psychic: ‘Growing up, I didn’t really know that the paranormal was something not to be believed’
Do you find it hard to end a conversation? You’re in the majority, study finds
Home and horny? Sex during a pandemic
To understand the Capitol insurrection, we need to understand trauma
Trapped at home during the coronavirus pandemic? Here's how parents can get through challenging moments
COMMENTARY: Here’s how parents can get through tough moments with their kids during the pandemic
Trapped at home during the coronavirus pandemic? Here’s how parents can get through challenging moments
Pandemic paradox: Loneliness keeps us safe, but at risk
Four years and 30,573 lies later, can we ever find our way back to the truth?
The pandemic paradox: The crisis of loneliness
REMOTE CONNECTIONS
Casual social contacts can help combat loneliness and improve well-being during pandemic, psychologists say
‘Feeling dead inside.’ Healthcare workers battling COVID-19 are suffering from dissociation
How redefining mental illness can reduce stigma
New Divorce Act won’t prevent family violence, critics say
