We are incredibly blessed to have grown such an amazing team in such a short time. Every single member of our team has dedicated their time to helping you heal, and find a new path through the journey of loss.
Interested in joining? Check out our open roles here.
Our Board
Aditi Loveridge (she/her)Founder
Aditi Loveridge (she/her)
Aditi Loveridge (she/her) is a certified coach, Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, mindfulness meditation teacher, writer, pregnancy loss advocate, owner of pregnancylosshealing.com and Founder of Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre.
Aditi has personally navigated the complex journey after pregnancy and infant loss. Through both her personal and professional journey she found that there were more supports needed to holistically serve the loss community in Calgary. To fill this gap, Aditi founded the Centre.
Aditi is honoured to help people connect to more healing options—so they can heal in their own way, on their own terms.
Danyelle Kaluski (she/her)Co-founder
Danyelle Kaluski (she/her)
With over 20 years working with non-profits from sports organizations to the United Way, Danyelle Kaluski has a passion to service her community. She spent 9 years working with a National Bank in various roles that included leadership, mentorship and training new recruits.
Through the loss of her second daughter, Emelina in 2012, at 38 weeks, Danyelle has been active in normalizing the journey of pregnancy loss, grieving and pregnancy after loss in her social network.
Danyelle is excited to be part of an organization that will provide the much needed support to the community and advocate for the healing of families.
Roopa Khanna (she/her)Board Member
Roopa Khanna (she/her)
Board Member
Roopa Khanna is a management consultant, specializing in adult learning and change management. She’s been at the helm of many projects, seeing them through from conceptualization to implementation. She holds a degree from the University of Calgary, as well as an Adult Learning Certificate.
Before welcoming her daughter in July 2019, Roopa experienced the pain of pregnancy loss. She is passionate about helping others to navigate their journeys. She believes it’s important to open the conversation about pregnancy and infant loss, especially in cultural communities where these topics are rarely discussed.
Jena (she/her)Board Member / Legal Advisory
Jena (she/her)
Jena is a practicing family lawyer in Calgary, Alberta, who obtained her Bachelor of Social Work prior to becoming a lawyer. Through her work as a family lawyer, Jena has assisted individuals and families as they journey through one of life’s most difficult moments, with care and compassion.
In 2019, after the loss of her first child, Isla, at 22 weeks gestation, Jena joined the community of those navigating life after pregnancy loss. She has been active in speaking about her experience of pregnancy loss, and believes that creating an open dialogue is the catalyst for change.
Jena is honoured to be a part of an organization that seeks to advocate for and provide services to those in the pregnancy and infant loss community.
Amen Dhaliwal (she/her)Board Member
Amen Dhaliwal (she/her)
Amen (She/her) is a devoted 29-year-old mother, wife, and friend who has worked for Alberta Justice for over 7 years. Following the tragic loss of her daughter five days prior to her due date in December 2019, Amen discovered how much a sense of community and understanding can aid in the healing process. She found strength, light and motivation through her 3.5-year-old daughter, who reminded Amen of her purpose. This became her motivation to offer a hand and shoulder to other parents experiencing anything similar, and allowing them to feel safe and validated.
By continuously being vulnerable and vocal about her own journey, she is hopeful and passionate about normalizing this conversation, and creating a support network for those who have also experienced similar losses.
She is determined to raise awareness about pregnancy and infant loss, and to ensure that grieving families know that they are acknowledged, cared for, and aware of the various resources that are available to them.
Kimberley Fuery (she/her)Board Secretary
Kimberley Fuery (she/her)
Kimberley Fuery (she\her) is a leadership professional with almost 30 years’ experience in service delivery. She holds two STEM degrees and is a former practicing member of the Alberta College of Paramedics (2006-2008).
In late 2020, after struggling with addiction for decades, she dedicated herself to recovery and came out as transgender soon after. Kim has been a visible & activist member of the community ever since, co-founding a non-profit focused on trans employment issues.
Having been enriched by the narratives of its members and clients Kim was moved to join PILSC. She has invited in grief to reconcile the loss in 36 years spent closeted, and to begin to integrate the death of her stillborn sister and loss of two pregnancies with a former partner.
Kim is grateful and proud to also be the co-mom of three remarkable young women and is honoured to contribute to the healing journey of others however she can.
Maggie McGee (she/her)Board Member
Maggie McGee (she/her)
Board Member
Maggie McGee (she/her) is an HR professional who obtained her undergraduate and master’s degree in Texas before moving back to Canada. While her career kept her challenged and even took her to faraway places, it also changed the trajectory of how she envisioned her life unfolding.
After navigating the fertility journey and process as a single woman, Maggie is grateful to now be several years into motherhood. Her dream of a family has come full circle; now a married woman with three kids.
Maggie is honored to provide support to individuals navigating the fertility journey. She is a strong believer that building a family comes in many ways and at different times for everyone.
Corinne L. Mason (they/them)Board Member
Corinne L. Mason (they/them)
Board Member
Corinne L. Mason (they/them) is an Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Mount Royal University. They research and teach in the areas of sexualized and gendered violence, 2SLGBTQIA+ in/exclusion, EDI, and reproductive justice. Corinne is currently writing a book that explores how reproduction is manufactured as a crisis around climate disaster, in/fertility, and in the mainstreaming of “replacement theory.” They have published on queering reproductive foreign aid, racist discourses in anti-abortion campaigns targetting sex selection, and on their personal experiences with the fertility industry.
Corinne is a queer non-binary femme and parent of a genderqueer child. They joined the board to with a specific interest in supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ people navigate conception, pregnancy, abortion, loss, parenting, care, and kinship. Corinne is dedicated to the four tenets of reproductive justice: the right to bodily autonomy; the right to have children; the right to not have children; and the right to parent the children in safe and sustainable communities.
Funke Ipaye (she/her)Treasurer
Funke Ipaye (she/her)
Treasurer
Funke Ipaye is a creative, energetic Finance professional. An exceptional problem solver and strategic thinker, with experience in the energy market. She holds a Finance degree from Brock University, an MBA from McMaster University and is a Chartered Professional Accountant.
Funke has experienced the pain of multiple pregnancy losses. She lost her identical twins in January 2022 and then another pregnancy in August of the same year. She is passionate about bringing grief out of the shadows by dismantling societal shame.
Advisory Board
Dr. Kyley Hunt (She/her)Somatic Support Advisory
Dr. Kyley Hunt (She/her)
Kyley Hunt is a Naturopathic Doctor who loves working in her hometown of Calgary to help promote health and wellness, not only with individuals in her practice but within the community. She loves to educate and empower those she works with to build lasting habits that support their health goals and gets them feeling their best.
She has experience working privately and in volunteer clinics both in Canada and abroad. It has been through these clinics that she has worked with and seen women and families through pregnancy and infant loss. These experiences have impacted her to work towards supporting those experiencing loss so they are not alone in their unique journey, while ensuring their health is supported and they are treated with respect.
She is passionate that those who have experienced loss are supported in their journey towards healing and is honoured to be working with an organization that is dedicated to this goal.
Dr. Hunt will be support the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Centre as the Somatic Support Director
Dr. Stephanie Cooper (she/her)Medical Advisor
Dr. Stephanie Cooper (she/her)
Dr. Stephanie Cooper is a Calgary trained Obstetrician-Gynecologist and Meternal-Fetal Medicine specialist with Alberta Health Services. She has over 10 years of experience caring for pregnancies with complications as well as overseeing the delivery of numerous beautiful babies at the Foothills Hospital.
Her passion is providing empathetic comprehensive, evidence based care that is individualized to each family, and supports autonomy, collaboration and respect.
The journeys of her loss mommas have inspired her to identify gaps in pregnancy loss care and to fight alongside our loss community teams to find solutions for a better way.
Our Practitioners
Aditi Loveridge (she/her)Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach
Aditi Loveridge (she/her)
Aditi Loveridge (she/her) is a Certified Life Coach, Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and owner of Pregnancy Loss Healing.
Aditi supports people in their journeys after pregnancy or infant loss. Her work includes supporting those who have recently experienced loss, are trying to conceive after loss of any kind (pregnancy/infant loss, failed IVF, loss through surogacy, missed adoption), pregnant again after loss and those still struggling after the birth of their baby.
Aditi helps people who have experienced loss to reconnect with trust (and love) so that they can step beyond anxiety and fear.
Aditi draws on her past educational background in social work and her current coaching and grief recovery method skills to help people connect with their present moment experiences so that they can engage wholeheartedly in their lives.
*Aditi’s sessions can be utilized by those within and outside of Alberta.
Kate Koei (she/her)Counseling Therapist
Kate Koei (she/her)
Kate is a multicultural, trauma-informed counselor working with culturally different, immigrant or individual, couples and families looking to experience counseling that honors and incorporates their faith, spiritual, cultural beliefs, and values. In private practice, she works in the areas of grief and loss, trauma and PTSD, culturally different couples, difficult relationship patterns, and domestic abuse including survivors of narcissistic abuse.
Kate holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and is a Certified Canadian Counsellor, Grief & Loss Educator, and Group & Workshop Facilitator helping individuals, understand and work through challenges that diminish their wellbeing.
She is excited to join PILSC as a counselor. From her own experience with grief, she recognizes that it is deeply personal and many times lonely. Her hope is that your journey together will be honoring you and your family. Your loss matters!
Kate Koei MA, MACP, CCC She/Her
Counselling Therapist, Renewed Self Counselling Services
www.renewedself.ca
Danielle Lemky (she/her)Counseling Therapist
Danielle Lemky (she/her)
Danielle Lemky (she/her) is a Registered Provisional Psychologist in Alberta and a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in psychology at Mount Royal University and holds a Master of Counselling degree from Athabasca University.
Danielle’s journey into supporting others began with a personal loss. She has a strong desire to help people work through the difficult feelings tied to grief, isolation, stigma, and trauma associated with varying forms of loss and bereavement, knowing the experience of this herself.
In addition to supporting those of various sexual orientations, gender identities, and persons with disabilities, Danielle has experience supporting those navigating grief and loss, trauma and PTSD, substance use and addiction, anxiety, depression, career challenges, relationships, and survivors of crisis and natural disasters.
Danielle uses an integrative approach with clients that incorporates various modalities of therapy that meet you where you are at in the present moment.
Danielle is happy to meet with you from a trauma-informed and person-centred approach. Whether you have been to counselling before or not, Danielle hopes to welcome you to a safe space for you to develop the tools you need to feel empowered, cope, and work towards healing in your journey.
Danielle Lemky (she/her), MC, Registered Provisional Psychologist, C.C.C.
Erin Winters (she/her)Psychic Medium
Erin Winters (she/her)
Erin is a psychic medium who works with spirit to provide loving guidance, meaningful messages, clarity, & gentle reassurance to her clients.
Erin has been an integral part of the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre from the beginning. She is very grateful to be offering her energetic channelings to this community.
Tamara Lacelle (she/her)Registered Midwife
Tamara Lacelle (she/her)
Tamara (she/her) is a Registered Midwife who believes that each person has the right to loving, respectful, evidence based care.
She understands the value in deeply supporting people who are experiencing, or have experienced pregnancy and infant loss, towards healing and wholeness. Her educational focus included primary research on the particular needs of those going through loss, and how healthcare practitioners can best support them.
She believes wholeheartedly in informed choice and values partnering with clients for physical and emotional health and safety.
Services Tamara can offer in the centre include:
- Post loss recovery assessment
- Pre-conception counselling
- Yearly physical follow-up ie: breast/chest exam, PAP
- Pregnancy-after-loss prenatal care
- Breastfeeding/chestfeeding check-in and referral
- Healthcare referral when necessary
Melissa Foley (she/her)Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach
Melissa Foley (she/her)
Melissa Foley (she/her) is a trauma-informed Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach certified through the Seeds of Growth Education and the owner of Healing Loading. She has worked in a Justice related career for the last 10 years and has found her real purpose through supporting and empowering bereaved parents to speak their truth knowing this journey is lifelong and that they can move forward while carrying that with them.
In 2016 her life was forever changed when she had to deliver her son, Lachlan, silently into the world at 33-week gestation, only to say hello and goodbye in a single moment. She continues to navigate this journey, openly grieving alongside mothering all her children, 2 here on earth and 1 in the stars.
If you are reading this and you find yourself navigating through this torrential storm of living life after any type of pregnancy or infant loss, whether early in the journey or years from that initial point, navigating pregnancy after loss, parenting after loss and anywhere in between, she would be honoured to support and partner alongside you in navigating this path forward.
NOTE: Melissa received her coach certification through Aditi & Danyelle’s new coaching training academy at SOGAcademy.com. Visit sogacademy.com for more information.
Jenne Newman (she/her)Art Program Facilitator
Jenne Newman (she/her)
Art Program Facilitator
Jenne Newman holds a Master’s degree in Creative Arts Therapies from Concordia University. She is a Certified Canadian Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, and a Registered Art Therapist with the Canadian Art Therapy Association. Jenne works in private practice, provides groups at Carya and is an instructor at the Prairie Institute of Expressive Arts Therapies. Jenne lives in Calgary and is the Co-founder of Blackbird Healing Arts Collective. Beyond work you can find Jenne recharging in nature and searching for wonder with her family.
Jenne Newman, MA, CCC, RCAT
Certified Canadian Counsellor #9466
Registered Creative Arts Therapist
Jason Dykstra (he/him/his)Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach
Jason Dykstra (he/him/his)
Jason Dykstra helps you hold the difficult spaces so that you don’t have to go it alone. He’s a trauma-informed Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach, Leadership and Conflict Coach, Educator and Speaker.
Much of Jason’s experience with grief comes from being a bereaved parent and working with clients for over a decade. He has a Master’s degree in Leadership, a B.A. in English and Psychology, and an Advanced Certificate in Conflict Management and Mediation. He’s a Certified Mediator, an approved trainer for Mental Health First Aid, and an adjunct Professor for the University of Waterloo.
Jason holds space for folks at all stages of grief, for humans of all genders and preferences, and for those who have experienced the secondary losses that come with grief and loss.
Melissa Sulley (she/her)Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach
Melissa Sulley (she/her)
Melissa (Mel) Sulley (she/her) is a Certified Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach, Pregnancy & Infant Loss Doula, owner of josiah+co., and a fellow bereaved parent. She also holds a Bachelor of Psychology and Education from Western University.
Melissa offers intuitive, trauma-informed coaching, supporting you through loss towards an empowered future.
She is passionate about supporting folks through all aspects of their loss journey – whether a recent loss, trying to conceive, pregnancy after loss, or parenting after loss. She also holds space for secondary losses such as loss of relationships, loss of identity, and loss of faith.
Melissa is honoured to partner with an organization that provides comprehensive, accessible support to the community.
NOTE: Melissa received her coach certification through Aditi & Danyelle’s new coaching training academy at SOGAcademy.com. Visit sogacademy.com for more information.
Our Support Team
Melissa Sulley (she/her)PILSC Chair for Ontario Chapter; Ontario Peer Support Program Manager
Melissa Sulley (she/her)
Melissa (she/her) is a Pregnancy + Infant Loss Doula candidate with a Bachelor of Psychology and Education from Western University. She is passionate about building supportive, inclusive communities for those impacted by Pregnancy + Infant Loss, and she wants you to experience the freedom to share your grief journey and heal without shame. Melissa is a mother to two earth-side babies and seven babies waiting for her in the stars. She resides in Hamilton, Ontario with her family.
Shelagh (she/her)Centre Administrative Assistant
Shelagh (she/her)
Shelagh brings with her a solid background as an admin in a variety of areas from business, academia and now with a charitable organization with the Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Center. She feels passionate about working in a role that benefits others in the community.
Shelagh was exposed to bereavement and deep grief at an early age and it left her with a profound sense of how fragile life is and how we need to find joy and light wherever we can. She feels privileged to be able to take this sense with her into her role with PILSC while putting her strong admin skills to good use.
Cait Reynolds (She/her)Helpline Virtual Peer Supervisor
Cait Reynolds (She/her)
Caitland (she/her) has a background in policy research, abortion advocacy, and social outreach. She has extensive experience in community work and believes in trauma-informed approaches to help others manage their journey through grief.
Having had an abortion in 2018, abortion advocacy is of special interest to Caitland. She is passionate about the multi-faceted emotions that accompany an abortion experience and hopes to help destigmatize abortion through open dialogue and education.
Caitland’s various experiences in community support give her a diverse perspective in supporting individuals through the grief journey, and she is honoured to bring these perspectives to PILSC by supporting clients and volunteers alike
Melissa Boisvenue (she/her)Social Media Lead
Melissa Boisvenue (she/her)
Melissa is a communications professional with a background in public relations and social media and comes to us from a busy marketing agency in Calgary. Melissa is a busy mom of two living children and one baby in the stars, which has brought her to be an advocate for other TFMR parents. She finds fulfillment in helping folks that have had a loss(es) through social media and connecting with others through the centre’s peer groups. Although busy, Melissa sets time aside every day to trail run and sets audacious running goals in the run community.
Melissa Foley (she/her)Lead Helpline Supervisor
Melissa Foley (she/her)
Melissa Foley (she/her) is a trauma-informed Pregnancy and Infant Loss Coach certified through the Seeds of Growth Education program and the owner of Healing Loading. She has worked in a Justice related career for the last 10 years and has found her real purpose through supporting and empowering bereaved parents to speak their truth knowing this journey is lifelong and that they can move forward while carrying that with them.
In 2016 her life was forever changed when she had to deliver her son, Lachlan, silently into the world at 33 weeks gestation, only to say hello and goodbye in a single moment. She continues to navigate this journey, openly grieving alongside mothering all her children, 2 here on earth and 1 in the stars.
She became a volunteer on the helpline in 2020 to help support other bereaved families, allowing them to know they are not alone on this journey of life after loss. PILSC has become a big part of her life and has been such a gift in her own journey. I am so honoured to be here alongside so many amazing individuals and to connect to this community in such a heart-centred way.
Jennifer Hammer (she/her)Support Group Coordinator
Jennifer Hammer (she/her)
Jennifer Hammer (she/her) is an intuitive mentor and Certified Coach. She is also a Perinatal & Loss Specialist, Certified Infant Feeding Educator, Reiki Master and Peer-Group Facilitator for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Jennifer is a strong advocate for peer-support and believes it is a powerful stepping stone on the pathway towards healing. She founded Postpartum Support Calgary to cultivate a peer-run community for parents battling isolation. Jennifer currently offers guidance through her business Sacred Nest via private and group coaching. In her work she uses an integrative approach combining somatic and energetic healing, emotional mastery and subconscious re-programming.
It was her own personal experience navigating the loss of her first pregnancy and perinatal anxiety that propelled her into this work and joining the PILSC team as the Support Group Coordinator.
Vanessa Gemmell (they/them)Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator
Vanessa Gemmell (they/them)
Vanessa (they/them) is a registered social worker with a Bachelor of Social Work from MacEwan University. They are passionate about increasing grief literacy in our society, trauma-informed practice, supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ community members in accessing affirming services, mental health advocacy, and developing interagency outreach initiatives. Vanessa has a professional background in non-profit work, distress line supportive listening, and leadership.
Vanessa has had the experience of shifting their understanding and expression of how family is created, built, and defined. When not supporting volunteers at the centre and expanding PILSC outreach initiatives, Vanessa enjoys spending their free time exploring parks and trails, volunteering, and attending local music and community events.
Margo Hopkins (she/her)Support Group Specialist
Margo Hopkins (she/her)
Being outside is what Margo likes best, whether hiking, running, meditation, or family walks with her pandemic pup. Art, writing, family, and yoga are the grounding forces of her life. In addition, she also loves to learn and always has a potential research question in her mind. Margo has a background in health research and various non-profit organizations. Margo completed a Masters of Disability and Community Studies with a focus on violence and the effects of trauma on marginalized populations. Margo is excited to be a part of an organization that offers diverse journeys through grief and loss that aligns with the diverse population being served, which is revolutionizing the ways we grieve and connect.
Nova McGillivray (she/her)Peer Coordinator
Nova McGillivray (she/her)
Nova McGillivray was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, she loves dogs, hiking and Starbucks. She has been a peer facilitator since 2013, is a Sistership Circle level one facilitator with Brain Story certification as well as Nonviolent Crisis Intervention trained. She came to PILSC as a helpline volunteer and then did her Canadian Mental Health Association Peer Support School practicum with PILSC which lead to becoming a PILSC facilitator and then moved into the Peer Coordinator role. She is happy to be using her knowledge and gifts to contribute and to support people
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