A real life Dr Dolittle gave up her successful city career and six-figure salary to become a spiritual healer for ANIMALS.
Gemma Cantillon spent 25 years working her way to the top of several large multi-national companies heading their HR departments.
But after a successful career helping humans climb the corporate ladder, the 48-year-old has turned her attention to the animal kingdom.
In 2020 she gave up her mega earnings to train as a Reiki healer and now helps improve the mental health of pets and farm animals.
Since launching her services, she has helped depressed dogs, anxious cats a distressed crow and an injured pheasant.
The mum-of-one charges £65 per session and uses meditation to communicate with animals and relays their problems to their owners.
She also offers a remote service for pet owners who live far away, by connecting with the animals using their photographs as a conduit.
Despite the significant drop in income, Gemma, from Grantham, Lincs., says she has “never been happier” helping animals overcome their troubles.
She said: “There are two ways to do animal communication. You can go face to face or you can do it remotely.
“I often do it remotely and I ask the pet owner for a good quality recent photograph with the animals eyes visible.
“I meditate and look at the photograph and study it.
“Once I feel I have the connection I close my eyes and ask the animal questions. I ask general, open questions to start the process.
“I’ve never had an animal say they won’t communicate with me, sometimes it takes several sessions.
“I’m listening through my body for responses, sometimes I hear words.
“I do a face-to-face feedback session.
“Sometimes I have no idea what these messages mean, I tell the human what the animal has told me.
“I follow up with a full written report to the client.
“The most frequent ones that I work with are cats, dogs and horses but my training means I can communicate with any animal.
“I have a lot of people who come to me, a lot of repeat clients. Most people really love their animals, and really care for them.
“I can talk to the animals and ask them to share anything with their past and ask what they want to do differently.
“I always say I won’t ask an animal to alter its behaviour.”
Gemma is bound by a strict code of ethics and will not talk to animals without their owner’s permission.
She explains: “You need to get permission from the animal’s human before you can talk with them.
“With wild animals you’re free to talk to them but someone next door might not appreciate you talking with their cat.
“Animal communicators can’t diagnose anything medical in a session.
“It’s about respecting confidentiality. Sometimes animals share important messages things for their humans.
“I had a particular client with her dog Marley. It was the first time I worked with this client.
Gemma Cantillon spent 25 years working her way to the top of several large multi-national companies heading their HR departments.
But after a successful career helping humans climb the corporate ladder, the 48-year-old has turned her attention to the animal kingdom.
In 2020 she gave up her mega earnings to train as a Reiki healer and now helps improve the mental health of pets and farm animals.
Since launching her services, she has helped depressed dogs, anxious cats a distressed crow and an injured pheasant.
The mum-of-one charges £65 per session and uses meditation to communicate with animals and relays their problems to their owners.
She also offers a remote service for pet owners who live far away, by connecting with the animals using their photographs as a conduit.
Despite the significant drop in income, Gemma, from Grantham, Lincs., says she has “never been happier” helping animals overcome their troubles.
She said: “There are two ways to do animal communication. You can go face to face or you can do it remotely.
“I often do it remotely and I ask the pet owner for a good quality recent photograph with the animals eyes visible.
“I meditate and look at the photograph and study it.
“Once I feel I have the connection I close my eyes and ask the animal questions. I ask general, open questions to start the process.
“I’ve never had an animal say they won’t communicate with me, sometimes it takes several sessions.
“I’m listening through my body for responses, sometimes I hear words.
“I do a face-to-face feedback session.
“Sometimes I have no idea what these messages mean, I tell the human what the animal has told me.
“I follow up with a full written report to the client.
“The most frequent ones that I work with are cats, dogs and horses but my training means I can communicate with any animal.
“I have a lot of people who come to me, a lot of repeat clients. Most people really love their animals, and really care for them.
“I can talk to the animals and ask them to share anything with their past and ask what they want to do differently.
“I always say I won’t ask an animal to alter its behaviour.”
Gemma is bound by a strict code of ethics and will not talk to animals without their owner’s permission.
She explains: “You need to get permission from the animal’s human before you can talk with them.
“With wild animals you’re free to talk to them but someone next door might not appreciate you talking with their cat.
“Animal communicators can’t diagnose anything medical in a session.
“It’s about respecting confidentiality. Sometimes animals share important messages things for their humans.
“I had a particular client with her dog Marley. It was the first time I worked with this client.
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00:00 Before I went into Reiki and animal communication I used to work in human resources and then
00:09 I retrained to become an animal communicator and a Reiki healer.
00:13 Benefits for me of changing career from being in human resources in the corporate world
00:17 into being a healer and a communicator is the flexibility to be able to work when I
00:22 want, to be able to raise my family in that as well.
00:27 I have so much more time to be able to do other things in my life that interest me but
00:32 also it doesn't feel like work.
00:33 I often forget that this is work because this is just what I love doing.
00:38 So in the Reiki I work on a mobile basis.
00:40 I go to people's homes and work with people, working with them and some people have long
00:45 term health conditions, some people just want it for a relaxation so I go to their homes
00:50 and work with them in their own space.
00:52 For animals I go to their yard or to their homes wherever they are to help them.
00:57 So sometimes again it can be maybe an anxious dog or a rescue dog or a rescue horse and
01:02 they have various issues and Reiki can be a beautiful way to relax and calm those animals.
01:09 Going to somebody's home I will communicate with the person first to manage their expectations
01:14 almost.
01:15 So sometimes with animal Reiki it's not a case of sitting with my hands over or touching
01:20 the animal because not all animals want to be touched.
01:23 It's not like working with humans.
01:25 I let the animal lead and it's part of my values and the way that we work with Reiki
01:29 and the ethics to allow the animal to choose whether or not they want to receive that healing.
01:34 So in my mind I will ask them are they happy to receive the healing and I'll usually
01:38 receive a yes or a no.
01:39 Or I'll see from their body language and then you might see the animal wandering around
01:43 for a bit.
01:44 So say if it's a dog and I go to their home, sometimes they might lie down for a bit and
01:48 they look really relaxed and then they'll just wander off and that's my cue they've
01:51 had enough.
01:52 The animal communication is my main thing that I do.
01:58 People will come to me to ask me to connect in with their animal for various reasons and
02:01 it can be any animal.
02:02 I can connect with any species.
02:04 Often I'm the last port of call so they've been to the vet, they've maybe been to a
02:08 behaviourist, they've tried to understand themselves what's going on for the animal
02:11 but they'll come to me to ask the animal what's going on and what do they need.
02:17 And my role is to connecting in using a photograph in my human room at home.
02:21 The human will give me some questions that they want me to ask and then the animal will
02:26 share that with me and I will feedback everything that I receive to the human unedited and then
02:31 between me and the human then we'll try and understand what the animal's message is.
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