Pet Bereavement

Support for You and Your Pets Left Behind

Pet bereavement, grief and loss often involves a rollercoaster of different emotions and reactions - shock and/or numbness, anxiety, anger, and sadness. It may take days, weeks, months or even years for someone who is grieving to ride through many different emotions, some of which can also be physical. Our pets that are left also grieve and I can help you to help them too. 

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Together I can support and help you work through your grief and learn positive coping mechanisms. 

Every support session is unique to you, we will work through your loss together and at your pace. Sessions last from 40 mins to 1 hour and we can cover as much or as little as you need. 

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Counselling support can be carried out by face to face (depending on location), email, text, over the phone or over a live video connection for all countries in and outside the UK.

How many sessions you need is your choice - I will work with you and am here for you.

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​If you have any questions please do get in touch.

What happens during a counselling appointment?

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I will listen without judgment and work with you (in your own time) at a comfortable pace to help draw your emotions out in a positive manner.  Counselling helps you work through your grief as well as learn coping mechanisms to help you when you are on your own.

Pet bereavement counselling is recommended for anyone, of any age, whose loss seems overwhelming or whose daily life, including employment, family and relationships are strongly affected by grief.

During the first meeting you will be asked about your pet and how your life is without him or her. You may cry, but this is only natural, and I will do my best to comfort you. I may give you activities or challenges to do, to free your mind from the hurt and sorrow, to release guilt, and anger and to allow the happy memories to flood the front of your mind. I will help you understand your emotions; find meaning in your loss and the reason for feeling as you do. You will come to terms with your grief and have an understanding that grief truly is a friend, and that it exists because we have loved and cared deeply.

If we do not grieve, we may reach a point of no return, which may lead to suicidal thoughts or worse. As a pet bereavement counsellor, I will prevent your grief from getting to this point.

I help support children and families as a unit. If your living pet is grieving for the loss of their buddy, I can give you advice on the best way to comfort them.

The length of time for which bereavement counselling will continue is dependent on the individual, how they feel. Usually, a counselling meeting lasts from 30 minutes to one hour and can continue for 3 to 6 plus sessions, but it is very much individual.

If you are suffering bereavement, please reach out to me or another professional bereavement counsellor, we are here to help.

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Cost is £45 for up to an hour appointment