Reiki For Pets

If an animal has brightened your days, made you laugh, listened without judgment, snuggled close through hard times, or loved you without condition, then you know what a true gift they are.

Animal Reiki is a beautiful way to give back to your animal companion and honor the unconditional love, comfort, and joy they bring to your life. For healthy animals, Reiki helps maintain balance, deepens relaxation, and supports emotional well-being. For animals who are ill, recovering, or showing signs of stress or behavior changes, Reiki offers a peaceful, non-invasive approach that complements traditional veterinary care.

What Is Animal Reiki?

Reiki is an energy therapy that allows your animal to enter a deeply relaxed, meditative state that ignites their bodies' own innate healing abilities. If your animal experiences pain, anxiety, fear, or trauma, Reiki can help bring ease and harmony to body, mind, and spirit

Why Choose Reiki for Your Animal?

Reiki is widely recognized as a complementary modality for humans and is now being embraced in the animal world for its gentle effectiveness. It’s non-invasive, stress-free, and does not require direct physical contact to be effective. 

Animals are naturally sensitive to energy and quickly recognize Reiki as supportive. Typically they will approach as a willing participant and take charge of their own treatment. During a healing session the animal will accept Reiki in the ways that are most comfortable for them, either hands-on or from a distance or a combination of the two. Reiki is always offered with permission and never forced.

How Animal Reiki Works

In a healthy animal, energy will flow through the body much like an electric current. Any blockages of this energy can manifest into physical, psychological or behavioral problems. Animal Reiki helps restore that healthy flow of energy, clearing blockages and rebalancing the system to support healing and well-being on all levels.

Benefits of Animal Reiki

  • Emotional healing following trauma, abuse or neglect

  • Provide relief from fear, anxiety and trust issues

  • Help alleviate lethargy and depression

  • Provide pre and post-surgery support to accelerate recovery

  • Delay the onset and progression of certain diseases

  • Provide pain management and relief from the effects of arthritis, rheumatism and other debilitating conditions

  • Reduce the side effects of chemotherapy

  • Promote balance and harmony among all pets in a household

  • Help with transition such as moving house, introduction to, or loss of, another pet

  • Energize and revitalize senior pets

  • Provide peaceful, compassionate support to ease end of life transition

Recommended Frequency and Duration of Treatments

  • Serious or chronic conditions benefit from one or more treatments per week

  • Small problems benefit from once a week until problem resolves

  • Surgery: Once a day 3-5 days preceding surgery, and once a day for about a week afterwards

  • Dying animals benefit from one or more small treatments per day

  • Every Animal benefits from regular treatments (once a week or even every other week) for supporting energetic balance and health maintenance

What to Expect

Reiki sessions are offered in your home for your pet’s comfort, either in person or remotely via Zoom. Each session begins with a short check-in to discuss how you’d like Reiki to support your animal. The animal guides the session length according to their comfort, typically up to 45 minutes. 

Caregivers are welcome and encouraged to participate in the session.

Appointments run approximately 60 minutes. All species are welcome.

Animal Reiki Rates:

Online via Zoom: $100 CAD

In Person: $125 CAD (plus travel fee)
To book an in person Animal Reiki session, please contact Willow directly. Online booking is not available.

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“Willow has been working with our rehab horses that come into the care of the BCSPCA through cruelty investigations. These horses often come in with behaviour issues, little to no handling, anxiety, fear and stereotypical coping behaviours. During sessions with Willow, stress is reduced, stereotypes decrease or are almost eliminated, and some horses become so relaxed they end up taking a nice long nap! I would highly recommend her services to anyone – humans and animals alike!” – Leiki Salumets, Farm Animal Care Supervisor, BCSPCA.

Please Note: The contents of this website are not intended as a substitute for professional veterinary care. Reiki sessions are given for the purpose of stress reduction and relaxation to promote healing. Reiki energy therapy is not a substitute for medical diagnosis and treatment. Reiki practitioners do not diagnose conditions nor do they prescribe, perform medical treatment, nor interfere with the treatment of a licensed medical professional. It is recommended that animals be taken to a licensed veterinarian for any ailment they have.