Janice Winchester Nadeau PhD, LP, LMFT, RN, FT

Dr. Janice Winchester Nadeau is a Psychologist, a Marriage and Family Therapist, a Fellow in Thanatology and holds a Master's Degree in Nursing. She has been active in the death, dying, and bereavement field for 30 years in the roles of a hospice nurse, college faculty, researcher, psychotherapist, and author. Since 1994 she has been in full-time private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1987 Dr. Nadeau received a four-year National Institute of Health grant to study the impact of loss on families. Her doctoral dissertation won the National Council on Family Relations and Sage Book Award which resulted in her publication of Families Making Sense of Death (Sage, 1998). In 1995 Dr. Nadeau was invited to become a member of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement, an invitation-only group that seeks to improve care for the dying and bereaved. In 2000 she received the Distinguished Service to Families Award from the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. In 2005 she received the Clinical Practice Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Dr. Nadeau has presented her work in 7 cities in Australia and New Zealand, the University of Kyoto, the University of Bologna in Italy, as well as multiple sites in Canada and the United States. Most recently she was invited to present her work at the University of Alba Julia in Romania.