Navigating Pet Death
Soul-Centered Support
For pets and the people who love them
$247 USD
Navigating Pet Death
Soul-Centered Support for pets and the people who love them
$247 USD
Dr. Sarah Kerr, PhD
Death Doula and Sacred Deathcare Educator
Dear Friends,
In my many years of working with pet death, I’ve witnessed the profound healing that can occur when we approach the process with skill and compassion. When we meet death as a soul journey, it changes everything about the experience, for you and for your pet.
This course is an invitation to transform your experience of loss into an opportunity for growth, connection, and grace.
I look forward to walking this path with you.
With much love,
Dear Friends,
In my many years of working with pet death, I’ve witnessed the profound healing that can occur when we approach the process with skill and compassion. When we meet death as a soul journey, it changes everything about the experience, for you and for your pet.
This course is an invitation to transform your experience of loss into an opportunity for growth, connection, and grace.
I look forward to walking this path with you.
With much love,
Dr. Sarah Kerr, PhD
Death Doula and Sacred Deathcare Educator
Need help with the emotional and spiritual dimensions of pet death?
You’re in the right place.
Meet pet loss in a soul-based way
Transform your pet’s transition into a sacred journey that brings healing and connection
Learn practical rituals for end-of-life care
Create meaningful ceremonies that honor your pet’s life, and support your emotional process
Discover grace and healing, even in grief
Find guidance for everything, from preparing for euthanasia to handling your pet’s remains
Meet pet loss with grace, understanding, and confidence.
Through heartfelt teaching stories, practical spiritual guidance, and gentle ritual practices, this course will guide you through this challenging journey.
You can’t prevent death from happening, but you can choose to meet it in a sacred, and healing way.
The Sacred Deathcare approach to pet loss helps you find peace, even in heartache.
You can’t prevent death from happening, but you can choose to meet it in a sacred, and healing way.
The Sacred Deathcare approach to pet loss helps you find peace, even in heartache.
You can’t prevent death from happening, but you can choose to meet it in a sacred, and healing way.
The Sacred Deathcare approach to pet loss helps you find peace, even in heartache.
Dr. Sarah Kerr, PhD
Death Doula, and Founder of The Centre for Sacred Deathcare
Ease your pet’s transition
Create a sacred, loving space for your pet’s comfort on their final journey
Discover the power of ritual
Create meaningful ceremonies to support your pet and process your grief
Honour the soul’s journey
Understand and support the energetic and spiritual aspects of your pet’s transition
Navigate difficult decisions
Find guidance and clarity to support end-of-life choices
Feel grounded and confident
Care for pets and people with compassion during this tender time
A Lifeline
“Sarah’s course was a lifeline during my dog’s final weeks. It gave me the courage to be fully present, and the tools to create beautiful moments of connection amidst the sadness.”
— Mary
Support for Pets
Care for your pet in death as you’ve cared for them in life.
• Understand physical and energetic signs of approaching transition
• Stay attuned to your pet’s needs as they near the end of life
• Create a calm, comfortable environment for their final days
• Feel more prepared for the upcoming transition
• Develop intuitive communication tools to understand your pet’s needs
• Make informed decisions about euthanasia and other end-of-life care
• Gain clarity and confidence in making difficult choices
Support for Pet Lovers and Families
Find a gentle path through the pain of this sacred transition
• Understand the stages of pet loss grief
• Bring ritual healing practices to your pet’s last days
• Prepare for or recover from sudden pet loss
• Ease your feelings of confusion or isolation
• Honor your pet’s memory and legacy
• Find purpose and healing in celebrating your pet’s life
Support for Practitioners
Understand the dying process, so you can confidently guide others.
• Support clients and pets before, during and after the last breath
• Feel confident helping people make decisions about euthanasia
• Explain spiritual concepts and principles in accessible ways
• Help clients create meaningful farewell ceremonies
• Strengthen your capacity to love through loss
• Facilitate sacred dying experiences that support people and pets
Support for Pets
Care for your pet in death as you’ve cared for them in life.
• Understand physical and energetic signs of approaching transition
• Stay attuned to your pet’s needs as they near the end of life
• Create a calm, comfortable environment for their final days
• Feel more prepared for the upcoming transition
• Develop intuitive communication tools to understand your pet’s needs
• Make informed decisions about euthanasia and other end-of-life care
• Gain clarity and confidence in making difficult choices
Support for Pet Lovers and Families
Find a gentle path through the pain of this sacred transition.
• Understand the stages of pet loss grief
• Bring ritual healing practices to your pet’s last days
• Prepare for or recover from sudden pet loss
• Ease your feelings of confusion or isolation
• Honor your pet’s memory and legacy
• Find purpose and healing in celebrating your pet’s life
Support for Practitioners
Understand the dying process, so you can confidently guide others.
• Support clients and pets before, during and after the last breath
• Feel confident helping people make decisions about euthanasia
• Explain spiritual concepts and principles in accessible ways
• Help clients create meaningful farewell ceremonies
• Strengthen your capacity to love through loss
• Facilitate sacred dying experiences that support people and pets
A Treasure Trove of Knowledge
“I’ve taken every class that Sarah offers. What I always take away, besides her treasure trove of knowledge about energy and tools for practice, is the immense channel of love she brings, and the spiritual nourishment she offers so graciously, for the living as well as the dying.”
— Juliet
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Sarah Kerr, PhD
Sarah is a Death Doula, ritual healing practitioner, and sacred deathcare educator.
With a PhD in Transformative Learning, and a focus on ritual and rites of passage, Sarah’s approach blends the spiritual with the pragmatic. Sarah has more than two decades of hands-on training in spiritual and shamanic healing practices, and she offers a clear roadmap for students and clients who are called to meet death and loss in a soul-based way.
As a Death Doula, Sarah serves as “clergy for the unchurched,” bringing inclusive and nature-based spiritual values to her work. With a strong community-focused approach, Sarah helps her clients meet mortality in a conscious and open-hearted way.
As an experienced teacher and trainer, Sarah has helped thousands of students validate their intuitive knowing that death is a soul-journey, not just a physical experience. Sarah’s courses give students the understanding, tools, and confidence they need to support dying people and their families.
In addition to creating the Centre for Sacred Deathcare’s library of virtual classes, Sarah lectures and teaches internationally. Her deathly advice column, “Dear Sarah,” appears in print publications in Idaho and Montana. Sarah’s work has been featured in Maclean’s and Zoomer Magazine, and on CBC Radio’s The Current, Global, and CTV National News.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Sarah Kerr, PhD
Sarah is a Death Doula, ritual healing practitioner, and sacred deathcare educator.
With a PhD in Transformative Learning, and a focus on ritual and rites of passage, Sarah’s approach blends the spiritual with the pragmatic. Sarah has more than two decades of hands-on training in spiritual and shamanic healing practices, and she offers a clear roadmap for students and clients who are called to meet death and loss in a soul-based way.
As a Death Doula, Sarah serves as “clergy for the unchurched,” bringing inclusive and nature-based spiritual values to her work. With a strong community-focused approach, Sarah helps her clients meet mortality in a conscious and open-hearted way.
As an experienced teacher and trainer, Sarah has helped thousands of students validate their intuitive knowing that death is a soul-journey, not just a physical experience. Sarah’s courses give students the understanding, tools, and confidence they need to support dying people and their families.
In addition to creating the Centre for Sacred Deathcare’s library of virtual classes, Sarah lectures and teaches internationally. Her deathly advice column, “Dear Sarah,” appears in print publications in Idaho and Montana. Sarah’s work has been featured in Maclean’s and Zoomer Magazine, and on CBC Radio’s The Current, Global, and CTV National News.
Meet the spiritual, emotional, and logistical aspects of pet death — from the beginning of illness or decline to the ceremonies after death, and beyond.
Meet the spiritual, emotional, and logistical aspects of pet death — from the beginning of illness or decline to the ceremonies after death, and beyond.
Course Modules Include
Find practical information, spiritual guidance, and real-life examples of gracefully navigating pet loss.
Our spiritual responsibility to our pets
What it means to truly include them as family members.
The shock of a
sudden death
Providing soul-support on both sides of the veil.
Supporting children through pet death
Tools for meeting the experience in a healing way.
Preparing for yourself for your pet’s euthanasia
Spiritual tools for healing and grounding.
Preparing your pet for their euthanasia
Communicating so their soul is ready.
When death comes
naturally
Creating sacred space and holding vigil for a dying pet.
After the
last breath
Meaningful body care and disposition practices.
Family and community ceremonies
After-death gatherings to integrate and heal your grief.
Working with an animal communicator
Deepening your connection before and after death.
This course offers a compassionate blend of practical tools and spiritual insights to guide you and your pet through their final journey with love, wisdom, grace, and confidence.
Course Modules Include
Find practical information, spiritual guidance, and real-life examples of gracefully navigating pet loss.
Our spiritual responsibility to our pets
What it means to truly include them as family members.
The shock of a sudden death
Providing soul-support on both sides of the veil.
Supporting children through pet death
Tools for meeting the experience in a healing way.
Preparing for yourself for your pet’s euthanasia
Spiritual tools for healing and grounding.
Preparing your pet for their euthanasia
Communicating so their soul is ready.
When death comes naturally
Creating sacred space and holding vigil for a dying pet.
After the last breath
Meaningful body care and disposition practices.
Family and community ceremonies
After-death gatherings to integrate and heal your grief.
Working with an animal communicator
Deepening your connection before and after death.
This course offers a compassionate blend of practical tools and spiritual insights to guide you and your pet through their final journey with love, wisdom, grace, and confidence.
Beautiful and Healing
“When my cat was dying, I didn’t know how to help her through the process, and my own grief was overwhelming.
Mitzie’s death was sad, but this course helped me face it in a way that felt beautiful and healing—for her and me.”
— Leanne
When death is met in a sacred way, the living, the dying, and the dead all benefit.
How it Works
If your relationship with your pet is a sacred bond that deserves to be honored, even beyond death, this course is for you. You’ll discover empowering insights and grounded ritual practices to help you navigate this challenging transition with grace and love.
You’ll Receive
How it Works
If your relationship with your pet is a sacred bond that deserves to be honored, even beyond death, this course is for you. You’ll discover empowering insights and grounded ritual practices to help you navigate this challenging transition with grace and love.
✓ You’ll receive access to our easy-to-navigate online library, where your course videos will be waiting for you.
✓ The course is broken into 12 concise video modules (~15 minutes each) for convenient, focused learning, plus Q&A and story videos for supplementation.
✓ Jump to a specific module for an issue you’re facing right now, or watch the full series in order.
✓ Listen to Q&As from live recordings for solutions to common challenges.
✓ Refer back to the video library whenever you need a refresher on a specific subject.
You’ll Receive
✓ Lifetime access to the Sacred Deathcare Learning Portal.
✓ Twelve teaching module videos with closed captioning.
✓ Two Q&A videos.
✓ Two pet death story videos and a sample memorial video.
✓ Audio-only recording options.
✓ Transcripts of course content.
✓ A personalized Certificate of Completion, suitable for submission for CE’s or CEU’s (licensure dependent.)
Meet pet loss with an open heart.
Learn to support your pet, yourself, and others through the journey.
$247 USD
100% Satisfaction guarantee
Financial assistance is available. If cost is a barrier, please reach out.
Meet pet loss with an open heart.
Learn to support your pet, yourself, and others through the journey.
$247
100% Satisfaction guarantee
Financial assistance is available. If cost is a barrier, please reach out.
Join more than 3000 students who have studied with Sarah
I felt in control
“I purchased your pet death course when it was released a while back. Yesterday I was able to support my best friend and her daughter through an at-home “easeful death” for their 14-year-old dog. I was able to say the right things, create the right space, hold the emotions, and guide them with ease.
I felt in control and like I knew what I was doing (as someone who struggles with imposter syndrome, that was a nice feeling to have) – and that gave them a sense of safety and trust that they could lean into the experience knowing that they could trust me to hold them through this.”
— Brenda
I am grateful
“As an animal communicator, I have had many occasions to help people get ready for euthanasia. I have also witnessed the various ways that veterinarians manage this merciful sacrifice. I am grateful to be able to suggest watching these videos to clients and friends.”
— Andrea
A deeper, more thorough perspective
The pet loss teachings made a big impression when I first watched it some time ago. Watching again today was a treat: after some exposure to ancestral, ritual, and Animist ways in the past year, I understood things from a deeper, more thorough perspective. It’s an outstanding, heartfelt offering.
— Susana
Allows for safety
“Sarah has a very strong gift for being present with people, and that allows for safety. She also speaks in a language that’s easy to follow… It’s not too much jargon. It is just normal conversation that has such depth to it.”
— Arturo
Peace, acceptance, and serenity
“Sarah is brilliant and enlightened. If you have questions or fears about death or if someone in your life is dying, Sarah and/or her teachings will guide you through the process with peace, acceptance, and serenity”
— Mark
A steady handrail, a trustworthy guide
“Sarah holds a deeply resonant space and has created a structure that maps the journey through ANY challenging event in our lives in a profoundly helpful way. Her work is a steady handrail, a trustworthy guide, and a wise, compassionate, and powerful torch to light dark passages.”
— Liz
Every module touched my heart
“Every module touched and opened my heart in some way. Sometimes in a ‘looking forward’ kind of way as in how to handle an upcoming pet death; sometimes ‘looking backward’ to more fully understand the dynamics involved in a situation of the past.”
— Pamela
Join more than 3000 students who have studied with Sarah
I felt in control
“I purchased your pet death course when it was released a while back. Yesterday I was able to support my best friend and her daughter through an at-home “easeful death” for their 14-year-old dog. I was able to say the right things, create the right space, hold the emotions, and guide them with ease.
I felt in control and like I knew what I was doing (as someone who struggles with imposter syndrome, that was a nice feeling to have) – and that gave them a sense of safety and trust that they could lean into the experience knowing that they could trust me to hold them through this.”
— Brenda
I am grateful
“As an animal communicator, I have had many occasions to help people get ready for euthanasia. I have also witnessed the various ways that veterinarians manage this merciful sacrifice. I am grateful to be able to suggest watching these videos to clients and friends.”
— Andrea
A deeper, more thorough perspective
The pet loss teachings made a big impression when I first watched it some time ago. Watching again today was a treat: after some exposure to ancestral, ritual, and Animist ways in the past year, I understood things from a deeper, more thorough perspective. It’s an outstanding, heartfelt offering.
— Susana
Allows for safety
“Sarah has a very strong gift for being present with people, and that allows for safety. She also speaks in a language that’s easy to follow… It’s not too much jargon. It is just normal conversation that has such depth to it.”
— Arturo
Peace, acceptance, and serenity
“Sarah is brilliant and enlightened. If you have questions or fears about death or if someone in your life is dying, Sarah and/or her teachings will guide you through the process with peace, acceptance, and serenity”
— Mark
A steady handrail, a trustworthy guide
“Sarah holds a deeply resonant space and has created a structure that maps the journey through ANY challenging event in our lives in a profoundly helpful way. Her work is a steady handrail, a trustworthy guide, and a wise, compassionate, and powerful torch to light dark passages.”
— Liz
Every module touched my heart
“Every module touched and opened my heart in some way. Sometimes in a ‘looking forward’ kind of way as in how to handle an upcoming pet death; sometimes ‘looking backward’ to more fully understand the dynamics involved in a situation of the past.”
— Pamela
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this course for me?
Navigating Pet Death is for anyone who recognizes that losing a beloved animal companion deserves to be met as a profound journey of the heart and soul.
For Pet Lovers
This course is for you, wherever you are on your pet loss journey:
· Caring for an aging or ill pet and seeking ways to honor their final days
· Recently experienced pet loss and looking for meaningful ways to process your grief
· Anticipating future pet loss and want to prepare yourself emotionally and spiritually
You’ll find tools to deepen your connection with your animal companion during their final days, and strategies for processing your grief and celebrating your pet’s life after they’re gone.
For Practitioners
This course is for anyone who supports animals or the people who love them
· Animal care professionals: Veterinarians, vet techs, animal communicators, trainers, dog walkers, pet sitters, groomers, etc.
· Grief and deathcare professionals: Death doulas, psychotherapists, grief counselors, spiritual directors, etc.
You’ll gain valuable resources to share with your clients, helping you provide compassionate, holistic support during the challenging experience of pet death
Are there any prerequisites?
There are no prerequisites for the course, other than a desire to honour the spiritual dynamics of the dying and grieving experience.
What is a soul-based approach to death and loss?
A soul-based approach cares for our souls as well as our bodies, and for the dead as well as the living.
This course is guided by nature-based spirituality and modern consciousness research, and its fundamental principles can be applied by those of any spiritual perspective.
What accessibility accommodations are included?
All of our video lessons include closed captioning, unedited transcripts, and audio-only options.
If you need other accessibility support, please reach out. We’d love to know what would make things easier for you.
Will I be certified?
As there are no assignments or evaluation involved in this course, this is not a certification program, and participating does not directly certify you in any way.
All participants will, however, receive a Certificate of Completion, which may be submitted for Continuing Education Units (depending on your licensure.)
Is there financial assistance?
Yes. The Centre for Sacred Deathcare is committed to equitable access to our programs. If financial issues would prevent you from taking the course, please reach out.
What is the refund policy?
If you registered for a course that’s not right for you, or if the course content didn’t deliver what you were expecting, let us know. We’ll happily issue a full refund.
We’re always working to improve the course content and delivery, and we appreciate any feedback you can offer about what didn’t work for you.
Is a specific belief system required for this course?
Whether you have a formal religious practice or a more personal sense of the Sacred, this course can support your spiritual journey through pet loss.
Sacred Deathcare is respectful of all traditions, and students often describe the ceremonies as “spiritually safe.” The practices offered can help you connect more deeply to your pet, yourself, and others, regardless of your spiritual background.
What if I have questions that aren’t answered here?
We want to help you have the best learning experience possible. If you have any further questions about the course, please get in touch, and we’d be happy to help.