Let's talk Animals
Pet Support Services
Supporting and celebrating you and your animal companion:
In relationships, health, grief, loss, change, life!
Deepen Connection
Trust Yourself
Be Surprised
Redefine Love
Animal Companion Grief, Loss
There are very specific, unusual decisions, thoughts, guilts, questions, and mind - body - spirit experiences that are part of grief and loss of our animal companions and even with environmental/eco circumstances.
Safe spaces to be with the loss, explore, heal, ask questions, helps us redefine the unique love we feel. We can even create a ceremony or prayer if that is helpful to you, your family.
Animal Communication
From their perspective: clear evidence-based insights on relationships, health, loss, behaviors, changes in routine or other life factors. They can be living or passed, and they will be recognizable to you. It can include medical intuition, diet needs, and other clarifying details. Enjoyable, focused, full of surprises that make sense and are relevant. They don't need to be present in our time.
*not for lost pets
Guidance and Support
There are many times we are faced with challenges when living with different species! What do they need? Why are they doing that? How can we change this? When is a good time to make a change? And when is the time to make a difficult decision?
There are skills and also, we feel so responsible and sometimes powerless - what we really are asking is: How do I trust my heart?
Let's Meet
One session
Let's schedule our time together. 1.5 hours is the average length. It goes by quick and is full of relevant care and info.
If you need a sliding scale or do not see a time available, contact me directly. I know there are timely needs around our love buddies.
Sometimes, we know we need more time together.
If you have recently brought someone home, or are facing difficult decisions, or are struggling with grief, this can be a great option.
This gives you space, time, ongoing support for these transition times - celebrating love, gaining insights, forming next steps.
Testimonial
"Birdi has endless kindness, compassion, patience, and intelligent insights. Her instincts and intuition are clear, helpful. She is calming, uplifting, steady. Exactly what we needed when we were so unsure, frightened, lost. She never told me what to do either. She was very careful to make sure I was in agreement with myself, so that she taught me how to trust myself in a way I had never experienced. I didn't think there was anyone in the world like her. I am ok now. I wasn't. I am now.
My experience with Birdi was profound. She is very special."
~Rex's Forever Human
Original Pet Portraits and Nature Art
Here are some peeks of my work.
Contact me with ideas and commission requests.
Why do I Focus on Animals?
We are animals. I have read that over 67% of homes are interspecies inhabitants! We have a lot of relationships that are intertwining.
We are here together, depending on each other, harming and helping each other, loving each other.
This is my way of helping to bridge the brokenness, pain, and confusion into love, healing, and actions. Here, my skills, passions, and awareness, can be put it to use and hopefully ripple out in small and large ways.
Every grain of sand makes the beach. These are my unique grains I can bring to this beach.
May they serve the world well.
Support for Providers
I bring my training in compassion resilience, positive psychology, and mindfulness facilitation to everything we do together, as well as my skills in grief, relationships, trauma, and spiritual companionship. I also respect that these words could sound like buzz words - yeh sure, I'll meditate my way through - I assure you that is not what I am offering.
When we are in the throes of burnout, overwhelm, and heart-worn, the sacred weariness is real, as well as the way this impacts our relationships and quality of life. Tender directness mixed with stillness is equally real to find and nourish your vitality well.
This is a path of authentic restoration and care, grounded with a touch of biology and expanded with a pinch of mystic wisdom.
Offered for Veterinarians, End of Life providers, Alternative Health Practitioners, Grief Counselors, Spiritual Directors and Clergy, Trainers, Activists as well as support staff and other un-named Animal Care Practitioners.
For you privately or your organization as preventative or restorative care and training.
Click below to learn more about options and my qualifications
"Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.- nature, animals, people"
~ E.O. Wilson
My Animal Companion Creds
- Being an Animal Chaplain is a natural match for weaving the soulful connections we share with them in life and death.
- The Companion Animal Holistic Nutrition certification allows me to support the changing body needs in all stages, activity levels, and conditions of life.
- The End of Life Animal Doula training helps me educate you well, make decisions, and prepare for the inevitable day we part. After that day, this combination also helps me support you and even other animals who remain, in grief.
- As an Animal Communicator, either living or passed - I get to surprise you with their tangible interests, needs, health concerns, and values to deepen your ongoing relationship and answer some important questions.
- Finally, as an Animal Portrait Artist, I help capture the nuance of their being as an ongoing source of joy and connection with one we love so and who loved so dearly.
My earliest memories are connecting with the birds, domestic animals, wild creatures.
My felt sense of them was strong and also filled with joy, compassion, rest. Caring for them and about them, advocating for and respecting them has always been a part of me, and they seem to like me, too.
It can be calming, healing, blooming for each of us as they allow us into their species spaces.
In my professional experience, I wanted to be able to continue to advocate, connect, and celebrate them. I love to educate and comfort humans who also have a heart for them and have welcomed inter-species living into their lives.
Thank you for your time here. I look forward to any way I can support you with your animal companion needs.
Whatever brought you here, may you find peace in your heart, trust for your inner wisdom, and joy in your connection with animals and nature, of which we are a part.
Kindly,
Birdi
