Pet Doula
death, ritual, and grief support
Pet Doula Support
Assisting you and your pet to meet death with as much grace and ease as possible.
When someone has a bond with an animal, it can be even deeper than a bond to a human—We open our hearts more widely to animals.
I offer pet doula support so that people don’t have to go through loss alone.
Losing a beloved animal companion can be devastating, and bring up other places of undigested grief and loss. It can also be a profound opportunity to meet grief and death with openness, leading to more love, fulfillment, and aliveness.
Pet Doula Support can include:
Honoring your pet’s essence
Support in decision making
Help caretaking
Facilitating good-byes
Being with children in navigating pet loss
Being present during euthanasia
Grief support
Creating ritual around death and burial
Grief Support
Get support in being with grief, upcoming or past, around a pet.
Pet grief is not always validated, even though the loss can be the same or even deeper than in a human relationship. When there is loss, there can be an immense chasm of grief.
I offer grief support so that people don’t have to go through this alone.
We experience the same physiological loss in our nervous systems when a beloved animal companion dies—our nervous systems go through a massive upheaval in the loss of warmth, co-regulation, and connection.
It is almost impossible to be in this alone. Having grief support allows us to go through the grieving process—to make sense of the loss—and adjust to life without your beloved friend. This is a way for us to go through the personal death of grief and come out the other side with deep love and more aliveness. To honor the spirit of your beloved pet and how their love changed you by how you show up more fully to the preciousness of your own life.
Your grief can be a medicine.
Pet Doula Services
Package 1: 6 hours - $500
Includes:
Pre- and post-death doula support
Grief support
Ritual support
Craniosacral work (if in person)
+ hourly rate for additional support
Package 2: 3 hours - $300
Includes:
Pre- and post-death doula support
Grief support
Ritual support
Craniosacral work (if in person)
+ hourly rate for additional support
Package 3: 75 mins - $120 1-time pet doula support session*
*offered to previous or existing clients
About Xena Tiger Queen
And Mikyö’s Journey to Pet Doula
Xena Warrior Princess Kitty, who later morphed into Xena Tiger Queen, came into my life when I was opening to death. In our 17 years together we navigated many deaths and re-births. She was my best friend, the one I let into the deep places in my heart no one else was allowed.
She died 3 weeks after my adoptive mother died. She helped me to death doula my mom to a peaceful passing. I couldn’t have done it without her. She did it while she herself was approaching the other side.
When it came time for Xena’s death I created a ritual. I had her loved ones tell her goodbye. I beautified the space, prepared her for what was to come, sang to soul to the other side. The vet said she wished everyone would show up for their beloved pet in such a way at the end of their life. That cemented the desire that was already brewing in my heart to work with people around pet loss and grief. It expanded to include death.