Grace Tallman

Grace received her nursing degree from UWO and has been a practicing RN for many years. She has worked in a large variety of nursing specialties including Emergency, ICU, community nursing, and mental health. These experiences have honed her compassion and made her keenly intuitive to the grief process that is associated with life’s various losses. Her extensive medical background allows her to understand illness and the dying process, and the very real physical manifestations of grief and depression. Her skills as a mental health nurse include training in cognitive therapy. This aids her in identifying her clients’ emotional wellness and helps them to reframe their thought patterns in order to promote emotional healing.

As a hospital chaplain for 8 years, she compassionately and actively listened to deeply hear people’s stories of loss and pain. She has been honoured to be part of the intimate journey of life with many individuals and families who were facing death and serious illness. As a Chaplain she was often called upon to address spiritual questions regarding major loss.

Grace recently graduated with a Certificate in Grief and Bereavement from King’s College at the University of Western Ontario. This extensive training program prepared her to work with people during the difficult stages of dying and grief. With her medical background, chaplaincy and specific academic preparation in this field, Grace is well qualified to provide support to people on their grief journey.

As a facilitator Grace has abundant experience in providing a safe and therapeutic environment to assist people to process their grief in a group setting. She has also developed and facilitated several training programs to train volunteers by helping them to gain insight and skill in working with dying and bereaved individuals.