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Guardian Animal Aftercare offers the gift of free grief counseling
with one of our pet loss bereavement specialists to all of
our clients in need. We provide this service in conjunction
with Dr. Kathleen Ayl, Dr. Trish Lane, Dr. Dominic Coppola,
Cheri Barton Ross and the Los Angeles County Pet Bereavement
Program. If during this time of bereavement, you feel this
service would be beneficial to you in any way, please let a
member of our staff know.
Dr. Kathleen Ayl has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and
specializes in Grief Counseling. She found her calling after
volunteering her services in Calcutta at the Home For The Dying.
Dr. Ayl has spent the last ten years helping people with all
different types of grief, from the loss of a child to the loss
of a beloved pet.
"Grief is all around us and sometimes it goes unrecognized
as such. My goal is to continue to teach others how to recognize
it, and be sensitive to it, so that they may help someone else
through a very painful part of life.” – Dr. Ayl
Please review the recommended reading list below where
you will find the exceptional book recently released that
was written by Dr. Kathleen Ayl as well as many other helpful
publications.
Dr. Trish Lane is a licensed clinical psychologist and is
one of the owners of the California Animal Referral & Emergency
Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. If you or a friend are
near the Santa Barbara area and are experiencing feelings of
loss, despair, or depression after the loss of a pet, you are
welcome to attend free group counseling the first and third
Tuesdays of each month. Please visit the following links for
more information: http://www.carehospital.org/grief.html
http://www.shivascenter.org
Cheri Barton Ross has specialized in pet bereavement for over
twenty years and sponsors the oldest pet bereavement support
group in California. She is also the author of "Pet
Loss and Human Emotion, guiding clients through grief." Cheri
Barton Ross has helped people work through the difficult issue
of pet loss by facilitating her professional bereavement counseling
groups.
Recommended Reading List