Specialty · Pet Loss Grief
Real grief. Real loss.
Grief over an animal we loved is real grief — and it deserves a place to be brought, without explanation or apology.
"Grief is love with nowhere to go. The size of the grief tells you the size of the love."
Anticipatory grief begins before the loss does. The diagnosis comes, the senior years arrive, and a small mourning starts running quietly under every ordinary day — every meal, every walk, every routine you know will eventually be the last one.
Sudden loss arrives without a chance to prepare. An accident, an emergency, a morning that didn't go the way every other morning had. The body holds the shock long after the mind has tried to make sense of it.
Ambiguous grief lives where the choice was yours — the euthanasia decision, the long quiet drive home. Even when it was the right call, the grief carries questions the heart will work on for a long time.
For those who feel they shouldn't be this affected
Your grief is appropriate.◊Your timeline is your own.◊Loving an animal is not a small thing.
Sit with the loss.
Without rushing toward closure or meaning.
Name what they meant.
The specifics of who they were to you, in your daily life.
Let the grief change.
Over weeks, months, seasons — at the pace it actually moves.
$175 per 50-min session·Sliding scale available·Bilingual EN/ES
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Pet Loss Grief
Beginning the work starts with a conversation.
Free 15-minute consultation. No pressure to commit, on the call or after.
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