Dr. Joti Samra, R. Psych. Organizational & Media Consultant

The question:   I have suffered for many years with suicidal depression, which I’ve controlled with antidepressants. I have retired from a very stressful job and moved to a more peaceful community. I would like to discontinue the antidepressants as they have unpleasant side effects, but my husband fears my suicidal depression will return. I [...]

Dr. Samra sat on the Technical Committee that spent the last several years developing the Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace Standard.   CAN/CSA-Z1003-13/BNQ 9700-803/2013, Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace is a voluntary standard intended to provide systematic guidelines for Canadian employers that will help enable them to develop and continuously improve [...]

The second season of Million Dollar Neighbourhood launches on Sunday, January 6 at 8 p.m. ET, on Corus Entertainments’s OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada), this year featuring the financially struggling residents of Bowmanville, Ontario, who have just 10 weeks to increase their collective net worth by $1 million dollars.  With the help of new host, [...]

Dr. Joti Samra interviewed by GlobalBC about public perceptions and reactions to Premier Christy Clark and in general about how women react to aggression among politicians in the media.   This interview is related to this post, published in The Globe and Mail (22.10.12)

Dr. Samra interviewed by Sonia Aslam of News1130 regarding a story on social media and how people continue to snap inappropriate photos of themselves, or allow others to take inappropriate photos of themselves, and run of the risk of them being leaked via social media.The Carly Rae Jepsen case was cited, in she told the [...]

Please see this link to Bill 14: http://www.leg.bc.ca/39th4th/3rd_read/gov14-3.htm  

Dr. Joti Samra interviewed by Anna Drewa, reporter and anchor for Global BC, about our emotions in regards to our pets and animals given the recent treatment of animals in the news.

Financial Expert Preet Banerjee Announced as Host of Season 2 Corus Entertainment’s OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada) announced today that after searching communities across the country, Bowmanville, Ontario has been chosen as the next Million Dollar Neighbourhood. Financial expert and winner of The Ultimate W Expert Challenge, Preet Banerjee will host the 10×60 series, along [...]

Dr. Joti Samra is the opening keynote speaker at a three day conference for Health and Safety Activists for United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 832 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She will speak about Building a Psychologically Healthy and Safe Workplace.

In addition to launching six new series, Winfrey will profile the “How I Met Your Mother” start during a visit with his family, where she’ll meet his fraternal twin children. The Oprah Winfrey Network announced its official summer lineup on Friday, including six new series and new episodes of Oprah’s Next Chapter and Our America [...]

(Staff Writer, The Tri-City News)   A women’s event aimed at helping women live happier, healthier and more fulfilled lives came to Mandi Sellers in a dream. Now she’s making it a reality.   She’s created Glow: A Women’s Evening of Change and Celebration, on June 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the Executive Inn Hotel [...]

(by Jessica Grabert, Television Blend)   OWN has been keeping fairly quiet ever since the network put into effect a restructuring plan that left 30 of its employees without a position, and left Oprah afterward proclaiming the institution of the cable network may have been a mistake. Nonetheless, the struggling network keeps pressing forward, hoping [...]

The Oprah Winfrey Network in the United States will debut Million Dollar Neighbourhood on June 9, 2012.    In the debt-ridden town of Aldergrove, the community is teaming up for a challenge that could change their fortune forever by attempting to increase their net worth by $1 million in three months.   To watch [...]

Dr. Samra discusses embracing the “loser mentality” tonight on OMNI News. Fans’ hopes were crushed with the hometown loss of the Canucks to the LA Kings on April 22 and now they are out of the run for this year’s Stanley Cup. With hopes high coming off the regular season, Canucks fans are heartbroken.

A Women’s Evening of Change and Celebration: Dr. Joti Samra, well-known organizational and media psychologist, Oprah Winfrey Network TV host and The Bachelor Canada psychologist, will be the emcee for Glow. Dr. Joti Samra is a woman who has it all together. Intelligent, savvy, beautiful and vivacious, the Vancouver native is making a name for [...]

Dr. Samra presents at the Burnaby Continuing Education Committee 2012: Management of Suicidality at Burnaby Hospital on April 20, 2012 to psychiatrists, family physicians, mental health and substance use therapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and other allied health professionals.  

Dr. Samra interviewed by Global BC’s Brian Coxford about the Canucks going into Game 4 tonight in LA.

Dr. Samra is the dinner speaker at Healthcare Benefit Trust’s AGM Dinner on Wednesday, April 18 at the Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club. She will discuss mental health in the workplace. HBT is a not-for-profit health and welfare trust that administers group health and welfare benefits on behalf of participating employers for nearly 100,000 [...]

Dr. Samra the MC at the Glow: Be Radiant. Be You: A Women’s Evening of Change and Celebration‘s inaugural event on June 1, 2012. This event will take place in Coquitlam at the Executive Inn Hotel, 405 North Road.   There has never been a women’s conference in the Lower Mainland quite like this. More [...]

Dr. Joti Samra interviewed by Robin Stickley from Global BC about the impact of workplace stressors for individuals in the public eye, including Christy Clark, the BC Premier.