How To Get The Most Out of Your Session

1. Clarify your goals: Prior to your session, think through what you most want to accomplish from it. What might you want to learn from your animal, tell them, hear from them, etc.? This process can help you spend your session time as efficiently and effectively as possible. And awareness of your goals helps me be sure to listen for subtle cues from your animals about each of your concerns.

2. Multiple animals: If you want to speak with more than one animal, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. the following information on each animal before your session. This will help ensure that you will spend more of your paid session time actually talking to your animals and less time describing them and their issues:

• Name
• Species and breed (e.g. cat, domestic shorthair)
• Color (e.g. gray with white paws, chin and chest)
• Gender and whether spayed or neutered
• Age and how long you have lived together (e.g. she's 9 years old, have since she's two)
• How you came to live together (e.g. adopted from shelter)

3. Photos: Though I very much enjoy looking at their pictures, I do not need a photo of your animal to make the telepathic connection. However, when you have more than two animals of the same breed or similar appearance, photos can help me focus more quickly on "who is who." If this is your situation, it can help to send photos. Photos of any of your animals can be sent by email in jpg form to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you send actual photographs through postal mail and would like them returned, please enclose a self addressed stamped envelope. Otherwise, I will keep them in your file.

4. Keep an open heart and open mind: . . . to what you may hear from your animal, and try to remain unattached to the outcome.

If you are in need of grief support: Consider reaching out before or beyond your scheduled animal communication session to explore the grief support resources available to help you heal.

Please note that I do not do "proof" readings. . .in which the client asks a series of questions demanding "proof" that I am connected to their animal. It is understandable that people who are not yet personally experienced in gathering intuitvely derived information within themselves may still feel a need for external proof that animal communication is real or even possible. The need to ask information validation questions in a consultation is an indication that a person does not yet trust intuitively derived information and is asking someone outside of themselves to make that leap for them. Though I respect where anyone may be on their path in understanding animal communication, making the leap of faith for others by jumping through hoops of "proof questions" is not work that interests me.

That doesn't seem to support the learning or growth process for anyone involved. It also tends to frustrate animals— who are usually eager to talk— when their person spends the consultation time asking questions to which both the person and the animal already have the answer.

What I do like to do is help people learn to make that leap of faith regarding trust in intuitively derived information for themselves through workshops. There, we all learn directly, for ourselves, what it is like to ask for and receive information from animals.

So if you are in the place of still needing "proof" via asking validation questions in an animal communication session, I would not be the appropriate animal communication consultant for you. To read more about this issue of proof in animal communication sessions, please see the article The Issue of Guaranteed Outcomes and Proof in Animal Communication.

What to Expect in a Session

The most soulful moments in my life are when I am connected with an animal. And many of the most touching and rewarding of those moments have been during consultations with animals and their people. It is a privilege to be part of the sacred connection between you. In attempting to help you meet your needs, my own goals for private consultations are to:

Provide accurate translation of any of the information, feelings, and energies that you and your animal wish to express to each other.

Beyond this translation, to bring you my deepest sense of empathy, compassion, non-judgment, love and my full presence and attention to support you and your animals in understanding and integrating your messages for each other.

More detail on what you can expect during a session:

1. At the beginning of our phone call we will take a few minutes to answer any questions you may have to help you feel comfortable with what to expect, for me to confirm the description of your animal, and to clarify your goals for the session. To spend less of your session time reviewing these issues and more time talking with your animals, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. a physical description of your animals and your goals for the session in writing before the session. Please limit this to no more than three pages.

2. To begin the actual session I will take a few quiet moments to get centered and to set an intention that all that occurs will be for the highest good for both you and your animal loved ones. Immediately after this I will ask to be connected to the spirit and essence of your animal. You will know that has happened when I start speaking again out loud to tell you the connection has been made and the first comments (or feelings or energy shown) from your animal.

3. From this point on, your session will be quite interactive among you, your animal and me. I will not be talking with your animal for 10 or 20 minute blocks of time and then report back a summary to you. I have found that sessions are much richer when interactive. I will let you know almost sentence by sentence, question by question, answer by answer, what your animals are saying, how they are responding, so you can experience and respond to the subtleties of all they are communicating. Think of the consultation as a conversation with your animal, with me nearby as the translator, just as a translator interprets a conversation between two humans who speak different languages.

4. The way I receive information from the animals can take several different forms. Sometimes I hear actual words and phrases, sometimes pictures or images, and often pure emotion or energy. When I translate your animal's words, you might hear me say "this is a quote," or "these are their words." When they show me images, or let me feel their feelings or energy, I have to use my own words to describe this to you. I will let you know the distinction between their direct quotes and my words. Sometimes, especially when the emotions or issues involved are layered or complex, it can be hard for an animal to send clear, specific or complete messages. In these instances, in trying to put the pieces together, to find the pattern of their messages, I will give you what I call my "subjective interpretation." This is not direct translation, but my own attempt to make sense of the energies and messages felt. I will always let you know when this is what I am conveying.

5. Your animal doesn't have to be physically near you during the session. Physical presence is not needed for telepathic communication because we are connecting to the spirit of the animal, to their essence. This is what also allows us to connect to the spirit of an animal who has died. If your animal is physically present with you during the session, it is hard to predict how they might physically react. Some animals make it very obvious they are aware of the conversation. For instance, they may keep eye contact with their person, or react emotionally to what is being said. Some will walk into the room during the conversation, then when the conversation is over, lie down or leave the room. Others may simply sleep, groom, or otherwise act like nothing special is going on.

6. You don't have to do anything special to make the session work. Just relax, sit back, ask your questions, and I will hold the energetic space and focus for the session. There will be a fair amount of silent time on your end when I am talking telepathically with your animal. It's natural and normal for your mind to wander off to unrelated topics during these quiet times. That's perfectly OK and does not effect the quality of the session. No need to feel guilty if you think about unrelated issues while waiting for me to resume speaking.

7. There are no right or wrong questions to ask. It's OK to ask anything. Just as with people, if you bring up a topic your animal doesn't want to talk about, she or he will let you know.

8. This is your conversation, with your beloved animal. You might want to think of me as the translator and support person helping you have a conversation and better understand what is in the heart and mind of your animal. But it is not in my place to tell you what to do, or to impose my values or solutions. I may at times make suggestions to help you meet your stated goals—perhaps a flower essence which may help your animals continue healing beyond the conversation we'll have. I might also suggest that you ask a certain question of your animals, or that you tell them something. Any such suggestion is just that—a suggestion. Any suggestions I might make or resource I might reference is offered with the intention of helping you meet your goals. You will not offend me if you say "Thank you but I don't want to go in that direction." I will not attempt to tell you what you should or must do, but rather will support you in determining what you believe is best for you, your animal and your situation.

9. Please be assured that all information about your consultation is confidential.