The Academy for Pet Loss offers professional certification in the TRACE Method — the only counselling framework built specifically for companion animal loss. Train online. Get listed. Build your practice.
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Our directory lists over 1,600 professional pet bereavement counsellors across the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. Search by location or find someone available online.
Find a counsellor near you →Earn the TRACE Methodology Practitioner certificate, get a verified directory listing, and access tools that set your practice apart. Fully online. No clinical background required.
Explore our courses →A five-step framework for pet bereavement counselling, grounded in Worden's Four Tasks of Mourning and Continuing Bonds Theory. Designed for compassionate practitioners — not clinical psychologists.
Invite the pet owner to share who their pet was — their personality, how they came into their life, what made them irreplaceable.
Explicitly validate the depth of the human-animal relationship. This is not 'just a dog.' The counsellor says so, clearly and without qualification.
Gently explore the grief. What are they feeling? What do they miss most? What is hardest day to day? This is the core therapeutic work.
Gather memories, photos, stories, routines — the defining moments of a relationship. This is where the memorial page begins to take shape.
Moving forward without leaving behind. The pet lives on in memory, in the memorial, in how the owner was changed by the relationship.
Our directory lists professional pet bereavement counsellors across the US, UK, Australia, and Canada — searchable by location, pet type, and session format.
Search the directoryYes. Here is what the research says and why your grief is valid.
Practical guidance on what grief looks like and how to find support.
One of the most common and most painful parts of pet bereavement.
Grieving before the loss — when your pet is elderly or ill.