About Janice
Clinical Experience
My private counselling practice is an extension of long-term clinical experience in the field of grief and bereavement. Throughout my career, grief counselling has been woven through Social Work positions I have held in Acute Care medical settings, Elder/Dementia/Palliative Care and for the past fifteen years, in the Women’s Program at Victoria Hospital, LHSC.
During that period, as the social worker in LHSC’s Fetal Development Clinic, I was a founding member of the Perinatal Supportive Care Team, a multi-disciplinary group devoted to supporting women in pregnancies when a prenatal diagnosis confirms their babies will not survive. What a privilege it was to journey with these women and their families and help them prepare for the birth and death of their babies, as well as provide bereavement follow-up. This work also involved training with Nursing staff and participating in educational events aimed at enhancing medical care for women experiencing perinatal loss.
Non-Clinical Experience
I am a long-term member of the Board of Bereaved Families of Ontario, Southwest Branch and sit on the BFO Professional Advisory Committee. I have provided training for lay leaders for Bereaved Parents’ mutual support groups and currently co-facilitate groups for couples experiencing prenatal diagnosis and perinatal loss in cooperation with Bereaved Families of Ontario and the London Health Sciences Centre.
An experienced speaker, I have made multiple presentations at conferences and workshops on the topics of grief and loss, parental bereavement, caregiver stress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue as well as lectures at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Our Space
Far from the clinical settings where your story may have begun, I have created a warm, welcoming space, in which to begin another kind of dialogue, a time of sharing, caring and validation.
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