At The Parted Paw, we offer compassionate guidance and emotional support services tailored to every stage of pet loss whether you’re preparing for the inevitable and are in anticipatory grief, navigating the immediate aftermath of your pets passing, or finding a path forward after your pet has passed, we are here to help. Founded on professional and personal experience and training, our approach honours the deepest bonds between pet and parent. We believe in holding space for grief, in nurturing memory, and in helping you heal with intention and empathy.
BEFORE YOUR PET HAS PARTED
Support begins long before loss during anticipatory grief. We help help you emotionally prepare, plan, and process difficult feelings like guilt, sadness, or helplessness, using tailored tools to restore a sense of agency and calm.
HOW IT WORKS
- Processing Anticipatory Grief.
- Addressing how you want your pet to part.
- Processing feelings of sadness, guilt, anger, bewilderment
- Work through preparation and create a plan for the passing of your pet.
- Work with specifically designed tools to help manage feelings of pre grief and pre passing of your pet.
- Mitigate feelings of loss of control and inability to function during this difficult and challenging time.
- The timeline of these services ranges anywhere from 3 months – 3 weeks prior to pet passing.
WHEN YOUR PET HAS PARTED
Immediately following your pet’s passing, we offer grief recovery sessions designed to help you understand your emotional landscape and begin healing. These focused sessions help you navigate shock, sorrow, guilt, and the early waves of grief.
HOW IT WORKS
- 1 hour grief release and assessment.
- Understanding your current emotional landscape.
- Understanding and supporting the unique circumstance of when your pet passed.
- Processing the initial stages of grief with specially designed tools to deeply understand the emotions attached to this time and provide you with concrete ways to navigate the initial feelings of loss and sadness after the passing of your pet.
- Most clients require a min of 3 grief recovery sessions when their pet has parted.
AFTER YOUR PET HAS PARTED
In the weeks and months after saying goodbye, we support you in rebuilding life with purpose and warmth. This includes healing exercises, guidance around keepsakes, fostering positive memories, and gently exploring when you might feel ready to open your life to new companionship.
HOW IT WORKS
- Assess the emotional landscape after parting.
- Transformative Wheel of Life Assessment.
- Address feelings of prolonged grief and sadness
- Work with healing exercises to create feelings of positive memory, light and love of the parted pet.
- Discuss what to do with any left over personalised pet items (ie: collar, harness, leash, bedding).
- Begin to process feelings of understanding, peace and positive memory of the parted pet.
- Start to look ahead and think about a new pet.
- Most clients utilise this service for 3 weeks – 3 months.
