Lynne Harford is the Founder/Coordinator of National Twin Loss Support, established in October 1992, and based in Murray Bridge, South Australia. Lynne trained as a volunteer bereavement counsellor through Lutheran Community Care and Bonnie Babes during the 1990’s.

However, Lynne noticed the lack of credible and reliable resource material for multiple birth loss families to access and so in 2001, gathered together a team of close bereavement care colleagues, including Dr Jane Warland PhD, Julie Bryant, Founder of OzMOST, and Lynda P Haddon from Multiple Births Canada and created the ‘Apex Australia Twin Loss Awareness Kit’.

Since that time she has remained focused upon creating new resources and educating the wider community about the specialised needs of multiple birth loss families and their surviving multiple birth children.

Lynne is the author of the books, “The Diary”, (inspired by her daughter Megan’s life), and “The Survivor”, (inspired by her son Rhys’ life). “The Diary” celebrated its 10^th anniversary in 2008 and plans are currently underway to have the 2^nd edition published with her US publisher, Pleasant Word.

She is an Associate Member of the Australian Counselling Association, as well as an Honourary Member of the National Centre for Leadership of Women (CLW).

Involved in community service work for many years, Lynne was President of the Apex Club of Murray Bridge during 2007/2008. Lynne is also a professional martial arts instructor, teaching freestyle karate for National Karate Academies, in the Murray Bridge area of rural South Australia.

She has TAFE college certificates in Basic Accounting, Business Practice, Justice Studies Certificate III, and Justice Studies Certificate IV in Court Administration.

To update her counselling skills, during 2008-2009 Lynne completed several modules from the Graduate Diploma of Counselling through the Australian College of Applied Psychology, based in Sydney. These were: Counselling Skills I & II, Developmental Psychology & Conflict Management.

In recognizing the work done since 1992, Lynne won the Short-listed Category for the 2009 National Centre for Leadership of Women (CLW) Leadership Award for Women, presented on International Women’s Day in March. As a result of her achievements she was presented with Honourary membership of CLW.

If you wish to contact the Founder of National Twin Loss Support, please use the following address: founder@nationaltwinloss.org.au

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