Frequently Asked Questions

  • Animal chaplains provide support for both humans and animals with a non-denominational presence to assist with all issues relating to the human-animal bond. My focus as an animal chaplain is helping humans and their animals navigate dying and grief with reverence and compassion.

  • We all tend to go through life as though death is a theory instead of a reality.  So when we’re faced with a terminal illness or aging of our animal companions, we are thrown into an agonizing panic by the inevitable truth.  How will we cope without their love and companionship?  Can we survive the loss? Learn more

  • Disenfranchised grief, or grief that is dismissed or overlooked.  Many people have grieved as much or more for an animal than for a human. While it may be true that our culture values human life over the lives of animals, our love with them is deeply rooted and we can and do grieve our animal companions profoundly.

  • Grief support can help you navigate your grief and find peace within yourself even though the pain of absence remains. One-on-one grief support helps accompany you through your sorrow, both with anticipatory grief before the death of your animal and after. Online and in-person support groups are available too.

  • At your pace I will gently companion you through whatever emotions grief inevitably brings - guilt, regret, anger, shame, anxiety, loneliness or relief. I can help you learn to be in relationship with our pain and grief. How? By allowing it to unfold with giving testimony to your stories, self-compassion gently emerges. When self-compassion grows, we find peace within ourselves even though the pain of absence remains.

  • To schedule a session, please complete the form or email/call directly to schedule a time. Appointments are one hour and require the Informed Consent Form and payment to be sent prior to the appointment.

  • I offer a 30-minute consultation to help decipher your best refuge that will sustain you on your healing journey - books, podcasts, body movement, group support, ritual, memorial, breathwork, writing or art.  

  • Yes — anticipatory grief begins before death. When we’re faced with a terminal illness or aging of our animal companions, we are thrown into an agonizing panic. Seeking grief support can help alleviate the isolation and anxiety and help you to better enjoy the precious and sacred time remaining. 

  • Grief over the death of a beloved animal is often dismissed or overlooked. This is known as disenfranchised grief. But we often grieve our animal companions profoundly. Grief support can help you navigate your grief.

  • Reiki is a Japanese healing art meaning “universal life energy” known to be 2500 years old.  In the early 1900’s Dr. Mikao Usui reintroduced this system of healing which uses gentle touch to harmonize the energies both physically and emotionally.

  • Developed by Carol Komitor, Healing Touch for Animals® is an energy healing modality specifically designed for animals for balance and harmony of physical and emotional wellbeing.

  • Shamanism is indigenous to all cultures throughout the world and is the oldest spiritual practice and form of healing known to man. The fundamental is that all life forms are sacred - plant, animal, human and Mother Earth. The objective of shamanic practice is to restore balance to all.

  • A life coach helps someone discover their personal development goals and visions and then assists in empowering them to achieve their desired result.

  • Interspecies communication, sometimes known as animal communication is listening to our innate intuition, instead of the mind, to be in communication with all life - animals, plants and nature.

  • The Toltec philosophy is that our assumptions, beliefs and expectations create our perception of reality and our behaviors and outlook can change according to these beliefs. This is best described in the book, The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz.

    Dreamwork is learning the language of our dream symbology to understand ourselves more fully and deeply.