pet los grief certificate
Help grieving people find peace after the loss of a pet.
The Grief Educator Certification is a comprehensive grief training program led by renowned pet grief expert Brigitte Bérubé to help you confidently guide others and heal your own heart.
The reason you're here
You know the pain of loss. You've seen, or witnessed in your clients, how grief and trauma can shatter our hearts, dim hope, and wreak havoc on lives.
You know there's no magic solution to simply "get over" or "move on" from pet loss. And yet, you've also seen that we're more resilient than we ever imagined. You've seen that with time and help, we grow around our painful wounds and can experience the sweetness of peace and remember with more love than pain.
Perhaps you wish there were someone to hold your hand and guide you through the worst days. Or perhaps something inside you whispers that you'd like to help others find peace. Perhaps you'd like to have even more tools and techniques to share with your clients, or even those who come to you as friends, seeking hope.
Together, we can make a big difference. For those in their darkest days, we can shine a light and point the way to peace in your heart.
Nourish your spirit while helping others find peace
Changing Lives
Understand and practice effective techniques to help others find resilience they never knew they had after life's most challenging events.
Intervention plan
Learn life-changing strategies for compassionate listening and exercises. Exercises on your grief to accompany people in hope.
Helping others is healing
Your experience matters. Your story has meaning, and you can help others find healing and hope after the most heartbreaking losses.
A Life-Changing Training
We created this program to enable you to help people recover from the unique devastation of pet grief.
Your future certificate in pet grief counseling is calling you. The journey begins now by taking a step forward in this transformation. This program is for anyone who wants to understand and support a bereaved person. For themselves or for a client.
11 modules; (4 hours of listening and hours for homework and topics =/- 10 hours)
Understanding pet grief and everything that influences it, the different types of clients, and its impact.
Guilt. How to help veterinary teams
Relationships and their challenges in the face of pet grief
The spiritual aspect of human grief
Defensiveness
How to manage difficult grief
The challenges of caring for someone
Creativity in the service of my career as a pet grief expert
Dive into this adventure that will transform more than just a life.
Requirements: 18 years and older
What you can expect
Private training website: student portal
Assignments: to help you internalize the teachings and make them more meaningful for you and the people you help. Feedback from Brigitte Bérubé.
Worldwide access: open to all
Unlimited access: available for your lifetime
Ongoing support: Brigitte Bérubé remains available even after the training for any questions.
Register as a member of the Petloss Friendly Community/Pet Grief Companion on our Pet Grief Center website.
Member-to-member support: Private membership of the Petloss Community Incubator Facebook group where all trainees support each other.
Zoom Lab: 15 minutes of coaching to be used 6 months before the start of the training.
Certification: electronic or paper version
Bonus 1: 4 documents: client form, cancellation, reference, progress notes.
Bonus 2: 3 Modules on Guilt
Helping Others Move Beyond the Pain of Loss to Create Meaning
Become a certified animal grief counselor
Chantale Chiarroto, France
"Thank you, Brigitte, for your kindness and wise advice. A top-notch training course on pet grief, rich in knowledge and insights on a difficult and painful subject like grieving for our pets, as well as a salutary introspection that will be beneficial for our future bereaved loved ones. Thank you again for this wonderful journey, this journey toward ourselves. We emerge from it stronger."
Johanna Guignard, France
"I highly recommend this training to anyone who is sensitive to animal grievance and wants to help others. It is a wealth of information and learning, both professionally and personally! In addition, Brigitte is always available to clarify certain points or answer any questions. I came away feeling proud and grown, so don't hesitate to listen to your heart and get started."
Grief Hurts
Loss is traumatic, complicated, confusing, and painful.
Counselors and therapists often tell me they open their office doors to see a patient blindsided by an anticipated loss. Now, they feel the overwhelming stress and frustration that their education failed to prepare them for the depths of excruciating pain.
There is a lamentable lack of emphasis on pet grief in today's professional and academic training.
So often, those grieving for their pet loss are stuck in rumination, guilt, and "what ifs."
As helping professionals, we expect to have the answers. We want to know how to compassionately guide someone out of the agonizing grip of grief. And yet, we see their pain consume them week after week, session after session.
As a certified pet grief counselor, you'll learn best practices, the most effective strategies, and the words that inspire hope and change. You'll understand the six needs of the grieving person and feel confident in a gentle yet pragmatic approach proven to transform struggle into hope.
About Brigitte
With over a decade of experience in counseling, I stand out for my ability to quickly connect during interventions and help guide the bereaved. Passionate about psychology, I regularly pursue new approaches to help people with their challenges. My interventions are unique to each individual, despite the similarities.
I am a social work technician and also have training as a counseling therapist, end-of-life support, and with the Alzheimer's Society. I have 18 years of experience in the hospital environment, where I have encountered death on a daily basis. I have developed expertise in pet grief support following the multiple deaths of my pets. I have lost six pets in less than two years, all in different ways. When someone tells me about the passing of their beloved pet, I touch them deeply.
Changing lives starts here
Sometimes a small step can make all the difference...
Be a resource in your community to help others make space for their grief while creating a path forward that honors their loved ones.
