Primary modalities: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and IFS (Internal Family Systems)
Primary Areas of Practice: Complex grief and loss, Infertility, Adoptions, Birth and post-natal trauma, and chronic stress and burnout.
Janice Tuling
Registered Social Worker
Individual Counsellor
Janice is a Registered Social Worker in BC with a Masters in Social Work and more than 20 years of clinical and community experience. She provides a warm and supportive space for adult clients navigating overwhelm from life, trauma, grief and loss, isolation etc. Many clients come to Janice feeling stuck, exhausted, disconnected from themselves, or unsure why they can't move forward despite "doing everything right."
We each have incredible resilience, innate wisdom, and capacity to heal. If you've been feeling chronic stress, burn-out, disconnected, or carrying grief, shame, or guilt that won't lift, you're not alone — and it's not a permanent state. Trauma and life stressors can get stuck in our nervous system, blocking our natural healing and preventing us from living fully even if life looks fine on the outside.
Janice focuses on resolving concerns related to chronic stress and burnout, complex grief and loss, infertility, adoptions, birth and post-natal trauma, and patterns that often trace back to early family dynamics, attachment and relationships. This can manifest as difficulty trusting others, fear of abandonment, pushing people away, feeling anxious or "too much" in close relationships. Janice also supports clients struggling with feelings of isolation or displacement, shame, guilt, and a lack of self-compassion or sense of purpose.
Janice uses EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and IFS (Internal Family Systems) as primary modalities. Her approach is to begin where you are. With a heart-centred, gentle, emotionally safe, trauma-sensitive, and non-judgemental approach, we'll work collaboratively to identify and release what's been holding you back, reconnect with your own innate wisdom, and build meaningful and sustainable growth.
With experience as a social worker in not-for-profit and government-funded settings - including work in adoptions - Janice has supported many people through significant life transitions, emotional pain, the loss of self-compassion and sense of purpose that so often comes with it.
Outside the therapy room, Janice has a full life working part time in adoptions and as a mom of two teenagers and partner. She loves living in Kelowna for quick access to nature, enjoys listening to podcasts and music, playing piano and making music with her partner and spending time with her family & their dog.
Virtual sessions across Beautiful, British Columbia.
Availability varies, please contact for details.
Fees: $160/50 minutes, $225/75 minutes
EMDR $185/50 minutes
Education
Master of Social Work (MSW) Wilfrid Laurier University, 2002- Focus on Individuals, Families and Groups
Bachelor of Arts, Social Development Studies and diploma in Social Work University of Waterloo at Renison College, 1999
Certifications & Trainings
EMDR Basic Training Tier 3, Sue Genest, Life Journeys Counselling & Training Inc, BC (Sept 2022-Feb 2023)
Basic EMDR Training and working towards EMDR certification. Completed specialized trainings in Complex
Grief and Loss and Complex PTSD.
EMDR-Child Specialist Intensive Certificate program, Ana Gomez, Agate Institute (Oct-Nov 2024)
Basic EMDR Training for children and youth.