The healthy community impacts we achieve through our work with new parents is made possible by the work and support of many people and organizations in the Greater Victoria area.
Program Lead
As the clinical director and lead counsellor, Traci McGee is responsible for the overall development and operation of the program. This means she is often speaking with the intake manager, and in close contact with the other counsellors. Traci does this work through her private practice, the McGee Therapy Clinic.
Perinatal counsellors
Our clinical team of perinatal specialists provides counselling directly to parents through the private practices they each operate. Every year, about 200 families receive perinatal counselling through the program.
Our counsellors are:
Traci McGee
Laurie Moniz
Theresa Gulliver
Jody Lambert
Perinatal Intake
Our Intake Manager, Dayna McPhail, promptly connects parents referred by a primary care provider with one of the program counsellors. She also takes the time with each parent to answer all their questions and overcome any challenges that can prevent them from getting to their first counselling session.
admin SUPPORT
In the background, Michael McGee assists as the program support manager.
governance & Fundraising partner
Program governance and fundraising assistance is provided by the physicians and community leaders who run the South Island Primary Care Society. The SIPCS is a nonprofit and charitable organization that advances innovative solutions to improve healthcare access in Greater Victoria.
FUNDERS
The program is able to deliver fully-funded perintal counselling with thanks to the generous, five year funding commitment made by a local philanthropic group in 2020.
LOCAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
We also acknowledge the many local healthcare professionals and their clinics who play a key role in identifying and referring eligible parents when they need our services and can benefit from them.
Together, we provide new and expecting parents with perinatal counselling when it is needed, beneficial and would not otherwise be accessed.
“To be human is to need others, and this is no flaw or weakness.”
– Sue Johnson