Registered Psychiatric Nurse and Mental Health Therapist providing individual therapy to client’s 18 years and older.

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Dana White RPN, BPN, MHT

Registered Psychiatric Nurse, Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing, Mental Health Therapist

Dana White is a Registered Psychiatric Nurse with over a dozen years experience. She is relentlessly passionate about mental health. She believes we all can be seen, understood, and empowered to achieve relief and freedom in our emotions, thoughts, and day to day life, no matter how complex our circumstances. She combines a rhythm of curiosity, empathy, honesty, and empowerment in her therapeutic approach. Dana’s presence is warm and calming.

Throughout her career, Dana has served patients and families in inpatient psychiatric care and trauma programs, helped coordinate psychiatric services in the community, taught psychiatric nursing students, and provided consult in primary care offices. Her therapy tools include Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy skills, Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Mindfulness, Solution Focused Therapy, and psychiatric nursing assessment skills.

Her areas of expertise include and are not limited to:

• Emotional distress and emotional regulation difficulty
• Anxiousness, avoidance, overwhelm, and burnout
• Low mood, low motivation, depression
• Acute traumatic experiences and PTSD symptoms
• Attention deficit and hyperactivity symptoms
• Infertility/pregnancy loss/infant loss/prenatal mental health
• Grief
• Life transitions
• Self-harm

Dana has a wealth of experience working with children, youth, and their families. She is also exclusively available through virtual services. She is happy to see youth aged 14+ for virtual therapy. Children and youth 13yrs old and younger, she is happy to provide a single consultation for assessment and strategy recommendations via virtual services but otherwise recommends connecting with a therapist available in person.

Please note that all services for children and youth require consent from all guardians by the time of the first appointment.

Outside the office you will find Dana, well outside. Camping, hiking, golfing, out at the family farm, or playing with her young family in the back yard. She enjoys photography, yoga, and quiet summer nights around a campfire.

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