Support your clients and your team through animal bereavement: essential expertise for veterinarians.
Veterinarians are often perceived as an exciting profession, but they also carry an intense emotional burden. Stress, guilt, and feelings of helplessness can seriously affect veterinarians and their teams.
Stress: Constant Pressure
Veterinarians face enormous pressure
Heavy workload:
Consultations, surgeries, emergencies... the days are long and demanding.
Difficult decisions:
Assessing an animal's condition and recommending euthanasia is a heavy responsibility.
Owner Expectations:
Some clients project their own pain onto the veterinarian, which can lead to tension and emotional stress.
This constant pressure can lead to compassion fatigue, anxiety, and even the risk of burnout.
Guilt: The Weight of Decisions
Despite their commitment to animal welfare, veterinarians must regularly perform euthanasia. Many feel a form of guilt associated with these actions, even when they know it is in the animal's best interest.
Wondering if it was the right decision
Feeling the owners' sadness and taking it on themselves
Feeling like they have "abandoned" a patient
This guilt can build up over time and affect their morale.
Helplessness: When Helping Is No Longer Enough
Veterinarians want to treat and save lives, but it's not always possible.
When faced with owners who refuse treatment for financial reasons.
When faced with an animal whose condition cannot be improved, despite their best efforts.
When they see their colleagues suffering from stress without being able to help them.
This feeling of helplessness can be deeply frustrating and lead to a form of emotional detachment or weariness.
Consequences for teams
Internal tensions: Accumulated stress sometimes creates conflicts between colleagues.
Difficult work environment:
A struggling team can become less cohesive and less efficient.
High turnover: Some leave the profession or change specialization to escape this emotional pressure.
There are solutions
These emotions, accumulating over time, can lead to profound exhaustion, tension within your team, and even a loss of meaning in your work.
I help veterinarians and their teams better manage these emotional challenges, regain balance, and transform their daily professional lives.
🎯 Free guide: "5 strategies to better manage stress and grief in veterinary clinics."
📥 Download it here: [Link to the guide]
If you'd like to discuss it, I also offer a free call to discuss your challenges and see how I can help you.
Supporting Veterinarians Beyond Care: Managing Emotions, Finding Balance
Being a veterinarian is much more than a job: it's a passion, a mission, but also an immense emotional burden. Between the stress of consultations, managing euthanasia cases, and client expectations, it's sometimes difficult to find balance.
👉 Do you feel overwhelmed by the emotional burden of your work?
👉 Do you feel like you don't always know how to manage client reactions?
👉 Do you experience tension within your team related to daily stress?
I'm here to help you. With over 10 years of experience in therapeutic support and social work, I help veterinarians and their teams:
✅ Better manage their emotions in difficult situations
✅ Rediscover a balance between professional commitment and personal well-being
✅ Create a more peaceful and harmonious work environment
✅ Better support clients through their grief to avoid tension
My strength? Human relationships. I understand both sides of the coin:
💡 The veterinarian, who faces the realities of the profession, difficult decisions, and stress.
💡 The client, who is experiencing immense pain and needs support.
Thanks to tailored intervention plans, I offer tailored support to help you live your career with greater serenity.
🎯 Want to learn more? Book a discovery call now and let's discuss your needs.
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What you get with the training
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 Petloss Friendly Community Member/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 after the start of the training.
Certification: Electronic or paper version
Bonus: 3 modules on guilt
Helping others move beyond the pain of loss to create meaning