Touch for Animals

Specialties

Touch For Animals offers special pet family services, including pet loss counseling, pet sitting services, energy healing, and canine massages. Like humans, dogs have physical and emotional needs which can be eased and healed through skilled therapeutic touch. In providing for the health and wellbeing of our dogs, we humans can derive comfort from knowing our furry friends feel better as well as guidance in using basic massage techniques for our dogs. Quite simply, we do it because we love them.

History

Established in 2011.

Touch For Animals represents Sylvia Edmonds’ lifelong love for the animal world, now culminating in this focused service to dogs and their people. Her work and personal experiences include many years as a psychotherapist, Licensed Massage Therapist for two-​leggeds, grief counselor, petsitter and pet companion.

As such, Sylvia brings to her current work a deep compassion for living beings, sensitive skills of touch and perception, plus intuitive communication abilities. She freely interacts with openness, warm affection and gentle humor.

As well as canine massage therapy, Sylvia offers grief counseling for end-​of-​life issues. As a former hospice bereavement counselor, Sylvia brings an especially tender touch and understanding to families who are anticipating or who have already experienced the loss of a pet.

Other services include overnight pet-​sitting and day visits, with eleven years professional experience in this area.