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Dr. Gabor Maté: Mental Health

Dr. Gabor Maté is a renowned keynote speaker and bestselling author known for his deep, research-driven insights on addiction, trauma, stress, childhood development, and compassionate healing.

Dr. Gabor Maté

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Highlights:
  • Order of Canada recipient for contributions to medicine, addiction understanding, and public education
  • Bestselling author of multiple internationally acclaimed books
  • Creator of Compassionate Inquiry, used by thousands of practitioners globally
  • Decades of clinical experience with addiction, trauma, and marginalized populations
  • Expertise featured in global media, conferences, and leading healthcare forums

Formats: Keynote speaker, author, and addiction and trauma expert

Audiences: Healthcare professionals, educators, leaders, mental health practitioners, parents, and audiences seeking deeper understanding of trauma, stress, and healing.

Outcomes:
  1. Clear understanding of how trauma and early experiences influence lifelong behavior and health
  2. Practical insights for fostering compassion, connection, and healthier relationships
  3. Evidence-based frameworks for supporting healing in individuals, families, and communities
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  • Travels from: Toronto, ON
  • **Fee range: $100,000 - $250,000

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Stress is ubiquitous these days — it plays a role in the workplace, in the home, and virtually everywhere that people interact. It can take a heavy toll unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully.

Western medicine, in theory and practice, tends to treat mind and body as separate entities. This separation, which has always gone against ancient human wisdom, has now been demonstrated by modern science to be not only artificial, but false. The brain and body systems that process emotions are intimately connected with the hormonal apparatus, the nervous system, and in particular the immune system.

Emotional stress, especially of the hidden kind that people are not aware of, undermines immunity, disrupts the body’s physiological milieu and can prepare the ground for disease. There is strong evidence to suggest that in nearly all chronic conditions, from cancer, ALS, or multiple sclerosis to autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease or Alzheimer’s, hidden stress is a major predisposing factor.

In an important sense, disease in an individual can be seen as the end point” of a multigenerational emotional process. If properly understood, these conditions can provide important openings for compassion and self-awareness, which in turn are major tools in recovery and healing.

Dr. Maté’s presentation includes research findings, compelling and poignant anecdotes from his own extensive experience in family practice and palliative care, and illuminating biographies of famous people such as athlete Lance Armstrong, the late comedienne Gilda Radner, or famed baseball legend Lou Gehrig. The presentation is based on When The Body Says No, a best-selling book that has been translated into more than thirty languages on five continents.

Topics covered:

  • The mind/body unity as explained by modern science (psychoneuroimmunology)
  • The nature of stress and its physiological consequences
  • The three major stressors: Loss of Control, Uncertainty; and Conflict
  • How the early environment programs” us physiologically and psychologically into chronically stressful patterns of feeling and behavior
  • Why stress remains hidden in our culture
  • The stressful work environment: how to recognize it and transform it
  • How to recognize stress and prevent it
  • How the understanding of stress can inform and enhance clinical practice.

Talent Short Bio

Dr. Gabor Maté is an internationally respected voice on addiction, trauma, stress, and childhood development, recognized for bringing clarity and humanity to some of the most complex challenges facing individuals and communities. A bestselling author and award-winning physician, he integrates scientific research, clinical experience, and personal insight to reveal how early childhood experiences and societal pressures shape lifelong patterns of health and behavior.

With over 20 years in family practice and palliative care and more than a decade working in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side treating patients facing addiction, mental illness, and deep social marginalization, Dr. Maté speaks with uncommon authority and compassion. His books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, When the Body Says No, Scattered Minds, Hold On to Your Kids, and The Myth of Normal, have influenced practitioners, policymakers, families, and seekers of personal healing around the world.

Dr. Maté has received the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non-fiction, the Civic Merit Award from Vancouver, and the Order of Canada for his groundbreaking contributions.

A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.

After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, Dr. Gabor Maté worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness.

His book on addiction received the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non-fiction. For his groundbreaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver.

His books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction; When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress; Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder; Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers; and The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture.

Dr. Gabor Maté next book, Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and Their Adult Children is expected in 2026. Gabor is also the creator of a psychotherapeutic approach, Compassionate Inquiry, now studied by thousands of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others in over 80 countries.

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