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 pregnancy and infant loss coach and advocate, Founder and CEO of the registered charity, Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre and co-founder of Seeds of Growth: Grief Education Inc. Aditi also sits as Board Co-Chair for Skipping Stones Foundation, empowering trans and gender diverse youth and adults.
Through her work, Aditi has supported hundreds of families on their reproductive paths. As an expert in the field, Aditi has been asked to speak on countless podcasts, radio and television spots and has advocated for systemic change for the loss community at the government level.
Aditi is a trailblazer within the loss community and she is grateful to share her wisdom, experience and heart toward the betterment of others.
Learn more about Aditi at aditiloveridge.com and sogacademy.com
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.
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.
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.
Kim Dueck (she/her)Secretary
Kim Dueck (she/her)
Originally from the west coast, Kimmy has spent over 20 years in Alberta working in a variety of administrative roles including sexual and reproductive health, midwifery and mental health. Passions also include further learning in areas of birthwork, trauma-informed care, self-sufficiency, art and the wild outdoors. Kimmy also volunteers time occasionally with a local rescue and with ‘Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep’ as an affiliate photographer.
She is also homeschooling her youngest son, helping her oldest son navigate entering adulthood, and holding down the house with 4 animal companions.
Advisory Board
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.
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
Our Practitioners
Aditi Loveridge (she/her)Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach
Aditi Loveridge (she/her)
Aditi Loveridge (she/her) is a certified pregnancy and infant loss coach and advocate, Founder and CEO of the registered charity, Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre and co-founder of Seeds of Growth: Grief Education Inc. Aditi also sits as Board Co-Chair for Skipping Stones Foundation, empowering trans and gender diverse youth and adults.
Through her work, Aditi has supported hundreds of families on their reproductive paths. As an expert in the field, Aditi has been asked to speak on countless podcasts, radio and television spots and has advocated for systemic change for the loss community at the government level.
Aditi is a trailblazer within the loss community and she is grateful to share her wisdom, experience and heart toward the betterment of others.
Learn more about Aditi at aditiloveridge.com and sogacademy.com
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 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.
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
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.
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.
Joëlle Croteau-Willard (she/her)Pregnancy & Infant Loss Coach
Joëlle Croteau-Willard (she/her)
**Le texte en français est présenté à la suite de celui en anglais.
When my second son Julien died 6 months into my pregnancy with him, I was thrust into a world of deep grief and loss. My life was devastated and I felt completely shattered – yet, the world continued on without me.
Experiencing a pregnancy loss is one of the most difficult and isolating journeys anyone will ever walk through. It’s for this reason that I’m so passionate about supporting you through this challenging time. While nothing will ever take the place of your baby, it’s possible to find hope, joy, and peace again. I can relate to the pain you are feeling, and I’m here to hold space for you as you pick up the pieces of your life with warmth, understanding, and compassion that only someone who has also walked this same path can express.
Wherever you are on the journey and regardless of how or when you have experienced Pregnancy or Infant loss, I am here to support you. I further specialize in supporting families through Parenting after loss and TFMR as well as offering sessions in both English and French.
My services cater to all parents, birthing people, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people. I am a Franco-Albertan living in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 Territory, also known as Calgary, Alberta. My pronouns are she/her/hers.
My life’s work was revealed to me with the passing of Julien. As my coaching expertise and my own experiences in the Grief & Loss world collided, I understand now more than ever how vital Pregnancy and Infant Loss Coaching is to recover from trauma and tragedy.
In my loss journey, I’ve also seen a tremendous need for the non-grievers & support system of the bereaved to have resources that allow them to feel useful, purposeful, and supportive when their loved ones are living out the worst days of their lives. If you love someone who has lost a child and feel confused, worried and paralyzed by it, I am here for you too.
Mon deuxième fils, Julien, est décédé six mois après le début de ma grossesse. J’ai été plongée dans un monde de deuil et de perte profonde. Ma vie était en ruine et je me suis sentie complètement détruite – et pourtant, le monde continuait autour de moi, sans moi.
Joëlle Croteau-Willard,
Accompagnante certifiée en deuil périnatal
Vivre une perte de grossesse est un parcours le plus difficile et le plus isolant qui existe. C’est pour cette raison que je peux compatir pour vous accompagner dans cette période difficile et compliquée. Je sais très bien que rien ne remplacera votre bébé. Par contre, il est possible de retrouver l’espoir, la joie et la paix. Je suis passionnée de vous accompagner et de vous offrir la chaleur humaine, la compréhension et la compassion que seule une personne qui a vécu une telle expérience de vie peut offrir.
Ma famille se compose de mon partenaire Calvin, de mon fils vivant Axel Lucien et de notre fils décédé Julien Wayne. Je peux vivre l’héritage de Julien en me tournant vers la communauté et en soutenant d’autres familles touchées par la perte périnatale pendant les moments où elles en ont un grand besoin.
Où que vous en soyez dans votre cheminement et quelque soit le moment ou la manière dont vous avez vécu la perte périnatale, je suis là pour vous soutenir. Je me spécialise également dans le soutien aux familles dans le cadre ” Parenting after loss ” et ” TFMR” (perte de grossesse et interruption de grossesse pour raisons médicales), et j’offre des sessions en anglais ainsi qu’en français.
Mes services s’adressent également à tous les parents, aux personnes qui accouchent et aux personnes 2SLGBTQIA+. Je suis une franco-albertaine vivant à Mohkinstsis, Territoire du Traité 7, aussi connu sous le nom de Calgary, Alberta. Mes pronoms sont “elle” et “elle.”
Our Support Team
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
Larissa Coquelle (she/her)Alberta Centre Manager
Larissa Coquelle (she/her)
Larissa (she/her) was born and raised in lower mainland, B.C and moved to Alberta with her wife, two dogs, and two cats in 2018. After years of trying to conceive, 2021 held an early chemical pregnancy and loss of 3 fur-babies within an 8 month period. Pain and darkness became consuming and lonely. Healing came through focusing on micro-moments of happiness and the purpose and laughter from rescuing another dog. Her previous experience leading another charity for almost five years opened her eyes to the healing power of laughter and smiles to combat darkness.
She is a passionate Jill-of-all-trades with enthusiasm for acquiring new skills and experiences. Larissa is excited to use her expertise in administration, IT, leadership, and strategizing to help others. She feels incredibly honored to work alongside such an amazing team to support people through their own healing journeys.
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.
Jennifer Hammer (she/her)Support Group Specialist
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.
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
Ashton Bennett (she/her)Helpline Virtual Peer Supervisor
Ashton Bennett (she/her)

Helpline Virtual Peer Supervisor
Ashton (she/her) has a background in prenatal and postpartum mental health with a special interest in pregnancy & infant loss support. After experiencing two of her own miscarriages and feeling incredibly alone due to a lack of supports, she decided she needed to do more to support parents going through similar experiences. She is now currently working towards her Bachelors of Social Work at Mount Royal University with a goal to become a counselor.
Sabrina Legare (she/her)Helpline Virtual Peer Supervisor
Sabrina Legare (she/her)

Helpline Virtual Peer Supervisor
Sabrina was born and raised in Calgary. She is a single mom of a son and they have two cats. Working on her past trauma she made the decision that she wanted to help others who may be going through trauma of their own. As she went through her trauma alone, she wanted to be the person she needed back then for others.
After completing a volunteer term with another organization, she earned her Gender-based Analysis Plus Certification and Brain Story Certification. She is excited to bring her personal experiences as well as her knowledge to PILSC as a Helpline Virtual Peer supervisor.
Arielle McEwen (she/her)Peer Mentorship Coordinator
Arielle McEwen (she/her)
Arielle (she/her) experienced some pretty big losses at a young age which completely threw her off track. When she was 17, she found her best friend after she died by suicide, and then less than 3 years later, she watched her mom die from cancer. For many years she felt adrift, but by helping others navigate their grief, she found her way to a new path. Grief often leaves people feeling isolated, but by connecting with others through similar shared experiences, Arielle has found a safe place to work through her heartbreak, while supporting others. Although she would not want to relive these traumatic moments, she is thankful for the road they put her on. Arielle brings a broad spectrum of experience including non-profit management, sexual health education, and trauma work. With a diploma in Human Services, and 2 years of experience as a grief mentor, Arielle feels right at home as the Peer Mentorship Coordinator with PILSC.
When not helping others, Arielle can be found exploring this big beautiful world with her husband and their 2 dogs, decorating their home, creating peaceful paintings, and playing acoustic guitar.
Rune Breckon (they/them)Recruitment & Engagement Coordinator
Rune Breckon (they/them)
Rune Breckon is a queer, transmasculine and non-binary, neurodivergent white settler who lives as an uninvited guest on Indigenous lands, specifically in Moh’kinsstis as of July 2022. They are dedicated to social justice, anti-racist, decolonial, trauma-informed, feminist approaches to sexual and reproductive rights and justice, 2SLGBTQIA+ expansion, harm reduction, and community-building. Throughout their 23 years of non-profit work, Rune strives to build and sustain relations and strengthen communities. In doing this work, they make mistakes and are grateful for opportunities they have been given to learn and do better.
Rune and their partner experienced an early pregnancy loss in the midst of ongoing queer and transphobia in their conception journey. This experience of loss, the isolation they experienced while trying to conceive, and the ongoing complexity of adoption processes continue to impact their family-making. Rune and their partner have made family through queer kinship, and are parents to a gender-creative living child and a joyous gentle puppy. Swimming in lakes, being surrounded by tall trees, and the foreverness of prairie skies, comforts Rune and resets their nervous system.
Sarah Duncan (she/her)Calgary Support Coordinator
Sarah Duncan (she/her)
Sarah Duncan is a skilled professional in Administration and Customer service with a wealth of experience spanning the Logistics and Education sectors. She holds a Masters’ degree in International Business Administration from Université d’Orléans.
When she is not creating exceptional customer experiences for organisations, she is busy nurturing two beautiful children and sharing her love for the French language by teaching it to kids. Sarah experienced the loss of a parent and molar pregnancy simultaneously, and is privileged to use her professional skills to make a real difference to the world.
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