Companion Animal Care

Thoughtfully guided restorative care that honours your animal's unique needs, experiences, and wellbeing.

A Different Approach to Care

When a companion animal is struggling, the effects are often felt throughout the entire household or environment they are part of.

Whether your animal is experiencing changes in mobility, behaviour, confidence, comfort, recovery, ageing, adaptability, or overall wellbeing, support is guided according to their unique needs and circumstances.

At Mend Well, care is not based on a fixed menu of offerings.

Instead, each session is individually tailored, drawing from a range of approaches to support the whole animal and the many systems influencing their wellbeing.

The Mend Well Way

At Mend Well, wellbeing is viewed through a whole-system lens.

Many concerns that appear physical, behavioural, emotional, nutritional, neurological, energetic, or environmental rarely exist in isolation.

Instead, these influences often interact and affect one another.

For this reason, care may explore the relationships between:

• Structure and movement

• Nervous system regulation

• Brain-body communication

• Behaviour and emotional wellbeing

• Nutrition and lifestyle influences

• Environmental influences

• Energetic wellbeing

• Adaptability and resilience

Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, sessions seek to better understand the wider influences contributing to comfort, function, behaviour, communication, wellbeing, and quality of life.

Common Reasons People Seek Support

Comfort & Mobility

Movement, flexibility, physical comfort, postural balance, recovery, rehabilitation, ageing, and maintaining quality of life.

Behaviour & Emotional Wellbeing

Confidence, stress, adjustment, behavioural challenges, environmental responses, emotional wellbeing, and adaptability.

Brain-Body Communication

Supporting communication between the nervous system, body, sensory systems, and overall function.

Recovery & Restoration

Supporting adaptability, regulation, recovery, and overall wellbeing following periods of challenge, change, illness, surgery, injury, or stress.

Nutrition, Environmental & Lifestyle Influences

Supporting wellbeing through nutrition, natural remedies, daily routines, and lifestyle influences, with consideration for functional living, and supportive environments.

Ageing & Transitions

Supporting senior animals, life changes, and end-of-life transitions with compassion, dignity, and care.

Why Sessions Are Individualised

No two animals are the same. Even when concerns appear similar, the influences contributing to those concerns may be very different.

This is why support is not selected from a predetermined menu.

Instead, approaches are chosen according to the needs of the animal at the time of the session.

This allows care to adapt as circumstances change and priorities evolve.

Sessions may draw from one or multiple approaches depending on what is

most appropriate at the time.

Who We Support

Support is available for a wide range of companion animals, most commonly:

• Dogs
• Cats
• Rabbits
• Birds
• Other companion animals by discussion

Care is tailored to each animal's individual needs, abilities, and circumstances.

Horses are supported through ConTact CARE Flinchlock Release sessions only.

Mend Well draws from a range of approaches selected according to individual needs, including:

• Foundational Bowen Technique
• ConTact CARE-Flinchlock Release
• Brain & Body Synergy (BABS)
• Bio-Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.)
• Bach Flower Essences
• Acute Homeopathic Prescribing
• Herbal & Botanical Support
• Frequency-Based Remedies
• NES Health Bioenergetics
• Reiki & Wai Qi Therapy
• Nutritional & Lifestyle Support
• Behavioural Support Approaches
• Environmental Support Approaches

Approaches May Include

The Mend Well Framework

Support is guided through the Eight Layers of Restorative Care and Six Pathways to Restoration, helping us understand the many interconnected influences that contribute to comfort, function, behaviour, adaptability, and overall wellbeing.

To learn more about the framework and approaches that may be drawn upon during care:

Full Method Library

Ready to Begin?

If you would like to explore whether Mend Well may be the right fit for your companion animal, view available session options below.

Sessions, Fees & Locations

Our Mission

Pioneering a new path to restorative care for individuals and their animal companions through innovative holistic approaches aimed at alleviating discomfort, supporting recovery from injuries and trauma, and addressing environmental exposures and stressors, with a focus on fostering balance and well-being.