About Ruth Verhey

Dr. Ruth Verhey is a global mental health researcher and a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with a focus on trauma therapy. She is the International Friendship Bench lead and works on expanding the Friendship Bench program globally. She has helped to develop the Friendship Bench program, especially the group support, income generation component and training material. Her research focuses on easily accessible and affordable care for common mental disorders, community-based interventions, group support, the well-being of counsellors as well as PTSD in people who live with HIV.