What does a consultation involve?

Your initial consultation with a fully qualified and trained animal aromatherapist is usually conducted in the home or environment where your pet lives. The therapist will take down a detailed history of your pet taking into account its background, health issues, questions about exercise, diet and any other factors that may contribute to the current situation.

The therapist uses kinesiology either on your pet or a surrogate to determine the imbalances and conditions requiring treatment. Kinesiology (pronounced kin-easy-ology) is a ‘modern’ therapy that uses many principles of chiropractics and Chinese medicine to tap directly into the body’s bio-feedback mechanism. It is the study of muscles and movement in the body, and when practiced, uses a series of gentle muscle testing techniques to detect imbalances in the body.

Using kinesiology allows the animal aromatherapist to select the right choice of essentials oils to help restore balance and support the healing process for your pet. At a follow-up consultation, you will be shown how to offer the oils to your pet. It is important to note that you need to assess your pet’s response to each oil before applying them. Never apply an oil unless the animal gives permission which will be demonstrated to you by the therapist.

 Scarlet licking the bottle containing one of her oils

When essential oil therapy and kinesiology are combined and applied properly for our animals, we are handing the choice back to them, that is we allow them the choice whether they take an oil or not. Animals are more sensitive to essential oils and a little can create profound effects and so we allow the animal autonomy in its own healing. This not only promotes good health, but it can also help build the bond between the animal and its carer.