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Ritz Suk Birah
Resilience
High Performance
Growth Mindset
Dr Ritz Suk Birah is a Consultant Counselling Psychologist and workplace wellbeing speaker, delivering resilience programmes for Lloyds Bank and Oliver Wyman. Also co-host of The Therapy Floor podcast, she is a trusted media voice for British Vogue, the BBC, and The Guardian.
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Dr Ritika "Ritz" Suk Birah is an HCPC-registered consultant counselling psychologist with a background in neuroscience, specialising in resilience, mindset change, and building healthier habits within organisations and workplaces.
Born in the UK and raised in Singapore, Dr Ritz spent her university holidays in Hong Kong with her family. As a British Indian, she has a deep appreciation for diverse cultures. Today, Ritz is a Consultant at three private hospitals, specialising in acute general psychiatry and providing psychological assessment and therapy. She founded Reflect with Dr Ritz, the UK's first psychologist-designed WhatsApp journal, making therapy principles and neuroscience techniques accessible to a wider audience, and co-hosts The Therapy Floor podcast with Dr Vicki, tackling everyday dilemmas with psychological insight.
Ritz translates clinical experience and neuroscience research into applied psychology for organisations, helping leaders and teams understand how pressure changes thinking, communication, and decision making. She has designed workplace wellbeing programmes and content for brands including Lloyds Banking Group, Fitbit, Mamas and Papas, and Oliver Wyman and is a regular contributor to the BBC, Channel 5 News, British Vogue, and the Guardian. She is also the resident psychologist on Ferne McCann's Every Cloud podcast.
Audiences leave Ritz's sessions with practical tools for regulating under pressure, forming habits that hold up during busy periods, and recognising the early signs of burnout before it affects performance. Her sessions are grounded in peer-reviewed research and eighteen years of clinical practice, providing teams with techniques they can use from the next working day.
If you're looking to foster your team's development by enhancing their resilience, helping them reset their mindset, and cultivating healthier habits, Dr Ritz is the expert to guide them.
Topics, sessions and talks
Dr Ritz Suk Birah equips leaders with the psychological and neurological tools needed to thrive amid constant change. Combining insights from psychology and neuroscience, she shows how to build mental toughness, adapt under pressure, and develop a growth mindset rather than a fixed one. Leaders learn to manage stress, maintain balance across demanding schedules, and inspire their teams with steadier presence, creating a resilient culture that can navigate challenges and seize opportunities with confidence.
Dr Ritz Suk Birah explores the psychological tools people need to manage their emotions effectively, both at work and at home. Understanding how the brain processes emotional triggers, she argues, is what strengthens self-control and everyday stress management. Applying these insights helps people stay composed under pressure, make clearer decisions, and contribute to a calmer environment around them. Attendees leave with practical tools for living, working, and leading with greater resilience, both individually and as part of a team.
Dr Ritz Suk Birah delves into the psychology and neuroscience behind habits that actually stick, rather than fading after a few weeks. She sets out strategies grounded in psychological principles for building positive routines, showing how understanding the science of habit formation turns good intentions into practical daily steps. Attendees come away with a clear method for making consistent progress toward personal and professional goals, and the confidence to sustain lasting change well beyond the session itself.
Many of us can relate to tipping the balance when it comes to work, with hobbies, family life and physical necessities like sleep falling by the wayside. Dr Ritz Suk Birah sets out six pillars of self-care, physical health, emotional wellbeing, mental clarity, social connection, purpose, and relaxation, and shows how they interact to either drive burnout or protect against it. Attendees gain actionable ways to strengthen each pillar, leaving with practical self-care practices that rejuvenate energy and support resilience over the long term.
Dr Ritz Suk Birah emphasises that sleep is a crucial yet often neglected aspect of mental health. She explains how inadequate sleep triggers anxiety, burnout, and decision fatigue, highlighting the importance of re-learning to rest for psychological resilience. Covering the neuroscience of sleep and the psychology behind sleeplessness, the session gives attendees practical techniques for improving sleep quality and a new appreciation of rest as a genuine driver of performance.
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Ritz Suk Birah draws on 18 years of clinical practice and peer-reviewed neuroscience research to ground her sessions in evidence rather than theory alone. She translates this material into structured, practical frameworks — covering habit formation, emotional regulation, and stress response — that attendees can apply from the next working day.
Dr Ritz Suk Birah speaks on leadership resilience, emotional regulation, and habit formation grounded in psychology and neuroscience. She is an HCPC-registered consultant counselling psychologist with eighteen years of clinical practice, whose workplace programmes have been delivered for clients including Lloyds Banking Group, Fitbit, and Oliver Wyman.
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