Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Joelle has lived and worked in Oxford and London since the early 1970s. She trained and worked with the London Natural Death Centre’s Befriending Network and worked as a massage practitioner as well as Resonance Repatterning Practitioner for some 15 years. She subsequently trained as a Soul Midwife in the mid-2010s. She volunteered on different occasions at Sobell House Hospice, both helping in the Day Centre and offering hand massage on the wards. Since 2018 she has been facilitating a monthly discussion group,  “Let’s Talk about Death and Dying,” which carried on through the pandemic on Zoom. She's also trained as a Funeral Celebrant with Green Fuse and was Chair of the Dignity in Dying Local Group for 5 years. She has recently co-founded the Oxford branch of Companion Voices which trains volunteers to sing to dying people.  She has given a number of presentations on Death and Dying including at Blackwell's and Oxford University Press. 

Joelle says, "Throughout my life I have been blessed to accompany friends and relatives living with life-threatening illness until their death and feel strongly that if we can explore and talk about death and dying, we can live better. I am keen to support others to do the same."