ABOUT JANICE

Janice Berger

Janice Berger | Psychotherapist
Janice Berger is a pioneer in Deep Emotional Processing Therapy™. She is a retired Registered Psychotherapist, as well as an author, mentor and public speaker. She has spent over 45 years helping people work through the pain of past and present trauma and childhood abuse, neglect and deprivation. 

She originally graduated as a Registered Nurse from Wellesley Hospital in Toronto in 1957. She obtained a diploma in teaching and supervision from the University of British Columbia in 1959 and a Bachelor of Nursing degree at McGill University in 1963. 

During her nursing career she worked as an Assistant Head Nurse at Vancouver General Hospital and a Head Nurse and Clinical Instructor of Nurses at Wellesley Hospital.

It was her desire to be the best parent she could be that started her personal emotional journey into herself. She is the mother of three biological children and a forth child, a daughter, adopted at the age of four. Her marriage ended amicably after thirty-one years. Her adult children are now in their fifties and she enjoys a close relationship, although not uneventful, with them and their life partners. She also delights in her grandchildren.

In her desire to grow personally she read widely and entered therapy with a Toronto psychiatrist who was using deep emotional processing methods. Her own healing journey convinced her of the power of the emotional process she believes we all own and can learn to access. She subsequently trained with this psychiatrist to be a psychotherapist and then obtained a Master of Education degree, focussing on psychotherapy, from the Ontario Institute for Studies In Education at the University of Toronto in 1986.

Janice Berger | Psychotherapist

Janice has initiated, planned, organized and presented a variety of personal development programs such as symposiums, seminars, and workshops, for women, parents, couples and a variety of professionals. 

She has also produced and hosted three television programs – a 6-part series for Rogers Cable entitled Keys For Emotional Well Being, a 15-part series on relationships for Vision TV entitled Open Hearts and a 90-minute program for Rogers Cable 404 North – Emotional Fitness. Roger’s cable also taped and presented Janice’s women’s breakfast series entitled Women, Wisdom and Well Being. She has been a guest on radio and television programs including eight appearances on CBC Radio, and has been widely quoted in The Toronto Star and other publications such as Canadian Living Magazine and Today's Parent.

Janice has written a bi-weekly parenting column for the local newspaper and produced numerous newsletters about emotional health over the years.

Her book Emotional Fitness; Discovering Our Natural Healing Power was first published in 2000 and has been reprinted by Penguin in 2005 and 2013 and is now published by Penguin Random House. Janice is very gratified that she is still receiving emails thanking her for writing Emotional Fitness and the book is still selling steadily 20 years later.

A German Psychologist, Marcel Bamberg, through Sabine Becker brought Emotional Fitness to the attention of a German publisher. Janice is grateful to them for the publishing of Emotional Fitness in German in 2012 by Scorpio Verlag.

Janice has been a mentor for psychotherapists wanting to focus more on helping their clients process their feelings. She has also worked with other therapists in her private practice in Newmarket, Ontario providing Deep Emotional Processing Therapy for their clients. 

She was delighted when her daughter, Dr. Lisa Berger, a registered psychologist, established her practice in the same building and became her colleague.

Janice is now retired as a registered psychotherapist.

Her audio book 'A Conversation about Emotional Fitness' became available on itunes, Audible and Amazon in January 2019.  It is a revisions of the original print book in an  interview/conversation format with new research, resources and information. 

In the last 4 years, Janice has collaborated on the development of 'How are you Feeling?'  A course to teach emotional literacy to adolescents.

https://howareyoufeeling.org/

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