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 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) 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 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 (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) 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 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 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 (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.