Care for dogs
Reviewed practitioners of holistic and complementary care for dogs: bodywork, rehabilitation, behavior, energy work, and integrative health.
- Animal Acupuncture & Acupressure: Stimulating defined points on an animal's body with fine needles or pressure, most often for pain and mobility.
- Animal Aromatherapy & Zoopharmacognosy: Offering diluted plant extracts and essential oils for an animal to approach, inhale, or turn away from. The animal chooses, the practitioner observes.
- Animal Chiropractic: Hands-on adjustment of the spine and joints in animals to support nervous-system function, mobility, and comfort.
- Animal Communication: A practitioner offers an intuitive, non-verbal reading of an animal's perspective: its preferences, its feelings about a change, its sense of things. Used for connection and reflection, not for medical or locating decisions.
- Animal Craniosacral Therapy: Very light, sustained hand contact along the head, spine, and pelvis, aimed at helping an animal settle and release guarding.
- Animal Naturopathy: A whole-lifestyle approach to an animal's wellbeing covering diet, environment, movement, stress, and gentle natural supports, used alongside veterinary care.
- Animal Osteopathy: A whole-body manual approach assessing how an animal's joints, muscles, and connective tissue move together, with gentle mobilization.
- Animal Reiki: A quiet, hands-off or light-touch practice where the practitioner holds a calm, settled presence and the animal engages on its own terms.
- Animal Somatic Experiencing: Trauma-informed work for an animal that freezes, bolts, or shuts down after a frightening experience, going at the animal's pace. Adapted from a human method and used alongside a behavior plan and veterinary care.
- Animal Sound Therapy & Bioresonance: Using music, tuned instruments, or vibration to help an animal settle. Some practitioners also use "bioresonance" devices; those are not used here for diagnosing or treating disease.
- Canine Hydrotherapy: Low-impact water exercise for dogs, in an underwater treadmill or pool, for rehabilitation, conditioning, and mobility.
- Canine Massage Therapy: Soft-tissue massage for dogs to ease muscle tension, support circulation, and improve range of motion.
- Canine Rehabilitation: Physical-therapy-style rehab for dogs: targeted exercise, manual therapy, and modalities to restore strength and function.
- Cooperative Care Training: Teaching an animal to voluntarily take part in handling, grooming, and veterinary procedures using consent signals and positive reinforcement.
- Flower Essence Therapy for Animals: Highly dilute flower-based preparations, such as Bach remedies, chosen for an animal's emotional state and given in water, on food, or on the coat.
- Functional Pet Nutrition: Building a species-appropriate, individualized diet (raw, gently cooked, or formulated) to support a specific goal, ideally with veterinary nutrition input.
- Healing Touch for Animals: A structured energy-based method using light touch and near-body hand movements, offered in a calm, systematic sequence.
- Holistic Behavior Modification: Addressing anxiety, reactivity, or aggression by looking at the whole animal: health, pain, environment, sleep, diet, and learning history, rather than training drills alone.
- Holistic Veterinary Medicine: A licensed veterinarian who combines conventional diagnosis and treatment with integrative approaches such as acupuncture, herbs, nutrition, and rehabilitation.
- Veterinary Herbalism: The considered use of Western or Chinese herbal formulas for animals, chosen for the individual and monitored alongside veterinary care.
- Veterinary Homeopathy: A practitioner selects highly diluted remedies chosen to match a detailed picture of the individual animal, used alongside veterinary care.
- Veterinary Laser Therapy: Applying specific wavelengths of light (photobiomodulation) to tissue to support healing and reduce inflammation in animals.