Overview
Veterinary professionals dedicate their careers to caring for animals, often while carrying the emotional weight of difficult cases, ethical challenges, client grief, and the demands of a high-pressure profession.
The Tender Tails Program provides specialized mental health support designed specifically for those working in veterinary medicine. Whether you're navigating workplace trauma, moral injury, compassion fatigue, burnout, grief, or the cumulative impact of caring for others, the program offers a compassionate, confidential space to process these experiences.
Through counselling, critical incident debriefing, and educational training, Tender Tails supports the well-being and resilience of veterinary teams across Atlantic Canada and Ontario.
Counselling
Kathleen provides in-person counselling for residents of Halifax and virtual counselling for clients across Atlantic Canada and Ontario. She offers compassionate, specialized support for veterinary professionals navigating workplace trauma, moral injury, grief, burnout, anxiety, depression, and other occupational stressors. She is trained in evidence-based trauma therapies that help individuals process difficult experiences, build resilience, and reconnect with their well-being. Direct billing is available for most insurance providers.
Training & Speaking
Kathleen has delivered hundreds of presentations and workshops for veterinary teams, organizations, and conferences across the country. Her engaging, evidence-informed training sessions address topics including emotional regulation, coping with death and dying, burnout, moral injury, healthy boundaries, empathy strain, compassion fatigue, and strategies for promoting individual and team well-being.
Critical Incident Debriefing
Following challenging or traumatic events in the workplace, Kathleen offers virtual and in-person critical incident debriefing for veterinary teams. These sessions provide a supportive space to process difficult experiences, foster connection, and promote healthy recovery after events such as patient loss, medical errors, ethical dilemmas, client conflict, or other significant workplace incidents.
