Animal Chaplaincy
to Offer Compassion
An animal chaplain provides nonsectarian emotional and spiritual care for people who care deeply for animals and for the animals themselves. An animal chaplain can help restore connections, help people and animals process grief and loss, and provide an antidote to compassion fatigue and empathetic distress.
Animal Chaplaincy Services
Ask an Animal Chaplain Session
Start here: Compassionate listening and practical and healing support for difficult transitions. $100
Animal Chaplain Virtual Sessions
Ongoing support for humans: three hour-long sessions to discuss difficult transitions or decisions, the loss of a pet, or how to help a grieving animal. Compassionate listening as well as practical and healing practices. $325 includes Ask an Animal Chaplain session
In-Person Sessions + Cooperative Care
Receive extra support for both you and your pets to help with animals’ end-of-life or medical care. Training help to make medical care easier. Activities to make life enjoyable, too. Support sessions may be used before, after, or during euthanasia appointments.
$850 six sessions including an Ask an Animal Chaplain session
Add Happy Training Visits to Support Your Pet
Eight one-on-one sessions for your dog or cat in your home providing cooperative care training and enrichment activities $600
Help with grief, loss, and animal end-of-life.
30 min
100 US dollars
Get Support From An
Animal Chaplain
Shel Graves is an ordained animal chaplain with the Compassion Consortium, trained to provide interfaith, interspiritual, and interspecies care. She is also an animal hospice and palliative care advocate.
End-of-life Support
An animal chaplain can provide emotional and spiritual support for animals and caregivers.
Grief and Loss Support
Compassionate listening and practical support for those grieving animal losses.
Difficult Decisions Support
Support for those considering rehoming an animal or euthanasia.
Add Ceremony to Your Event
The world needs more people who care about animals and we need to work together. Animal chaplains care for those working for animals. Foster a culture of compassion by adding ceremony to your event and formally recognizing the emotional impact of animal work. An animal chaplain can help you create connection, engagement, and community. We offer animal blessings and invocations and workshops and rituals to enhance your organization's mission.
How can we help?
Based in North Everett, Washington. Serving West Snohomish County -- and virtual clients.
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Our Clients Say
"Thank you Shel for helping to guide our family on this unfortunate journey. We would have been lost without your compassion and wisdom."
Esmerée R.
Ask an Animal Chaplain, Now
Book a session with an animal chaplain. You are not alone. Compassionate listening and support begins here. Recieve expert recommendations, resources, and qualified referrals.
