Dr. Heliana Ramirez

Dr. Heliana Ramirez, LISW (she/her) is a US and Canadian-based anti-racist and LGBTQ-Affirming workplace trauma therapist, researcher, suicidologist, and entrepreneur. She provides therapy in Ohio and founded Workplace Trauma Recovery, LLC, to provide psychoeducation and self-help resources to workplace abuse survivors including the Black Women Toxic Job Suicide Prevention Guide, the Latinx Suicide Prevention: Keeping Each Other Safer in Community, and the Black Suicide Prevention: Keeping Each Other Safer in Community. She recently published a study of 18 abused workers entitled "M.O.M. (Mobbing on Maternity) Leave: How Workplace Abuse Impacts Pregnant Workers and Their Babies"  and authored the journal article Systemic health worker suicide prevention–Reframing mental ‘Illness’ to mental injury. 

In 2013 with Director Michael Nedelman, Dr. Ramirez produced a Veteran-led documentary film The Camouflage Closet about workplace trauma and recovery among LGBT military service members and veterans. This film addresses issues of Military Sexual Trauma and anti-LGBT violence by US military personnel and is featured with an accompanying educational curriculum by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Heliana earned a PhD at University of California, Berkeley, MSW at Washington University, St. Louis, and lives in California with a family who supports her whistleblowing on workplace discrimination and HIPA privacy violations in behavioral health research and practice.