a note from Diane

Helping people and their animals in nature, is what I love to do. It is an expansive field and can be challenging, humbling, intense and quite intimate. Animals and nature have a brilliant way of making us show up as we really are, leading us to possibilities for self development, healing of family systems, the collective, and beyond. Travel, indigenous teachers, continual study and the past seven years in particular, have granted me experiences within the Interspecies realm that bring much into focus, and I’m told it is important to share this guidance for as long as it is useful.  To explore the seen and  unseen worlds that exist between all species.  

I live and work on the farm, and am also co-owner of the Animal Soul, formerly Delaware Pet Cremation, in Wilmington Delaware.  It is an extraordinary honor to serve families and their animals as they find their way through the challenges and emotions of loss, death and transformation. When you work with death and loss you work with life and what is waiting to come in. What growth is available?  We work in that powerfully transformative space, elementally invoking ritual, courage, and gentleness.  Sadness is natural and normal - part of the circle of life. When one’s heart is awake, open, you can feel much sadness because your heart is soft and sore and full.  Soft, tender hearts are able to be fearless, and fearlessness brings tenderness.

Certifications

  • Canine Natural Rearing

  • Canine Massage

  • Canine Natural Fitness and Rehabilitation

  • Canine Energy Work

  • Canine Warm Water Therapy

  • Canine Acupressure

  • Trans-Species Psychology

  • Human Massage - Multiple Modalities

  • Karuna Reiki

  • Healing Ritual Practitioner

  • Death Doula/Transitional Doula

 

Extensive Study & Mentorships

  • Canine Natural Medicine - Pioneer in Holistic Veterinary Medicine - Juliette de Bairclai Levy

  • Grief, Ritual and Elemental Study - Dagara Elder Malidoma Patrice Some, PhD

  • Vibrational Soul Medicine - Traditional Nepalese Medicine - Suren Shrestha

  • Chod Phowa - Lama Tsering Norbu Wangdu Rinpoche

  • Wolf Behavior and Ecology - Yakama Tribe - Mehina Mountain Dancer 

  • Daoist Nei Gong - Ronnie Edlund - Damo Mitchell

  • Family Constellations 

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine

  • Small Animal Naturopathy

  • Transformative Astrology

  • Chinese Energetic Medicine

  • Internal Martial Arts