If you’ve ever felt like your animal is carrying emotional pain, repeating patterns, or struggling in ways that don’t seem to have a clear physical cause, shamanic healing for animals can offer a deeper layer of support.

As an animal healer and communicator at Spiritheart Animal Healing and Communication, I often find that animals mirror the emotions, stress, and energy of the humans around them. They can carry trauma, grief, anxiety, and even energetic imbalances that affect their wellbeing.

Through animal communication, energy healing, and shamanic healing, I work with both you and your animal to clear, release and restore balance on a soul level.

What Is Shamanic Healing?

Shamanic healing is an ancient spiritual healing practice used across many cultures for thousands of years. It works with energy, spirit and the unseen world to bring healing, insight and transformation.

In my work, shamanic healing may involve:

• Journeying to connect with spirit guides, ancestors or power animals
• Soul retrieval to help restore lost parts of the soul after trauma
• Energy extractions to remove heavy, stuck or unwanted energy
• Cord cutting or releasing unhealthy energetic attachments
• Clearing spaces or land energy that may be affecting you or your animal
• Bringing back balance, grounding and protection

Animals are naturally very spiritually aware and often respond beautifully to this type of healing.

How Can Shamanic Healing Help Your Animal?

Animals experience emotional and energetic trauma just like humans do.

Shamanic healing for animals may help with:

Anxiety and Nervousness

If your animal is highly sensitive, reactive or struggles to settle, shamanic healing can help calm and regulate their energy.

Trauma and Past Experiences

Rescue animals, or animals who have experienced abuse, neglect, accidents or sudden changes can hold onto emotional wounds.

Healing can help release what they are carrying.

Behavioural Changes

Sudden behaviour changes can sometimes be linked to emotional upset, energetic imbalance or environmental energy.

Grief and Loss

Animals grieve too.

They may grieve the loss of another animal, a human family member, or changes in routine and environment.

End of Life Support

I often support animals and their guardians through end-of-life transitions.

Shamanic healing can bring peace, comfort and spiritual support during this time.

How Can Shamanic Healing Help You?

As humans, we often carry stress, trauma and emotions that our animals pick up on.

Animals are incredible mirrors.

Sometimes when I work with an animal, it becomes clear that healing is needed for the guardian too.

Shamanic healing can help with:

• Emotional healing
• Stress and overwhelm
• Feeling stuck or lost
• Releasing old trauma or patterns
• Reconnecting with yourself
• Grounding and protection
• Spiritual connection and guidance

When you heal, your animal often feels the shift too.

My Personal Experience with Shamanic Healing and Animals

Shamanic healing has become a huge part of both my personal and professional journey.

Over the years, I’ve had some incredibly profound experiences while working with animals experiences that have deepened my understanding of their wisdom, their worlds and the ways they communicate beyond words.

One of the most powerful experiences I had was while helping a lost cat in the Netherlands called Mickey.

As I connected with her, she drew me into her body so I could see what she was seeing. In shamanic terms, this is often known as shapeshifting—where you energetically step into the experience of the animal to understand their world from their perspective.

Through Mickey, I was able to see glimpses of her surroundings and understand more clearly where she was and what she was experiencing.

It was such a powerful reminder of just how deeply animals can connect with us when we open ourselves to receive.

Another unforgettable experience happened while working with an incredible horse called Sultana.

As I connected with her, I suddenly found myself leaving my physical body as she took me into hers.

At the time, I wasn’t even aware that I had left my body because I was still communicating with her as normal.

It wasn’t until afterwards that I realised what had happened.

My physical body had collapsed in a heap on the floor while my spirit was still journeying with Sultana.

What happened next still gives me goosebumps.

The other horses around us came and stood protectively around my body to keep me safe during the process.

Sultana even called the other horses from the neighbouring field to come closer and protect me too.

It was one of the most profound and humbling experiences of my life.

Sultana showed me deep wisdom in that moment about trust, surrender, spirit and the incredible intelligence animals hold.

When I returned fully to my body, it took me a few days to feel completely grounded and connected again.

Since then, I’ve become much better at staying anchored in my body during healing and communication work.

These experiences taught me so much about boundaries, grounding and the sacredness of this work.

Journeying to Connect with Animals and Spirit

I love journeying.

Journeying is one of the most powerful tools I use in my healing work.

Through drumming, meditation and altered states of consciousness, I can journey to connect with animals—both in spirit and here on Earth.

I often journey to connect with my own animals in spirit, as well as clients’ animals, to receive messages, healing guidance and insight.

I also journey to meet my power animal, the hummingbird.

The hummingbird brings messages of hope, joy, resilience and perspective.

Whenever I connect with hummingbird energy, I’m often guided towards the messages I most need to hear or what the animal I am working with needs me to know.

How I Combine Shamanic Healing with Animal Communication

One of the things that makes my work unique is that I combine animal communication, energy healing and shamanic healing together.

Through animal communication, I can connect with your animal to understand:

• How they are feeling emotionally and physically
• What they may be struggling with
• What they need from you
• Messages they want to share

Then through healing work, I can help clear and support what comes up.

Sometimes during communication sessions, animals show me:

• Past trauma they are holding
• Emotional pain linked to their guardian
• Energy they have absorbed
• Land or home energy affecting them
• Soul contracts or lessons they are helping with

This allows me to work on a much deeper level than communication alone.

Healing You and Your Animal Together

I truly believe healing often works best when both the animal and guardian are supported together.

Your animal may be carrying your stress.

You may be carrying grief your animal is feeling.

You may both be stuck in a cycle of anxiety, trauma or emotional overwhelm.

Working together can bring:

• Greater peace
• A stronger bond
• Emotional release
• Better understanding
• More balance in the home

Why I Bring Shamanic Healing into My Work

Because of these experiences, I know this work goes far beyond simply “talking” to animals.

Animals are wise.

They are spiritual.

They can guide us, heal us, protect us and teach us.

Sometimes animals bring messages.

Sometimes they ask for healing.

Sometimes they take me on journeys to understand their pain, their lessons or their purpose.

And sometimes, they remind me just how magical and sacred this work really is.