For veterinary partners

You don’t have to send them home with nothing.

GriefPaws offers gentle, therapist-guided support after pet loss - a short text each morning and a longer reflection each week, delivered quietly to your client’s phone. There is nothing for your clinic to buy, sign, or install. You hand them a card, and we take it from there.

No cost to your clinic · No contract · Nothing to install · No revenue share

You’re the one who stays in the room.

You explained the options. You gave them time. You stayed while it happened, and you have done it more times than most people could. Then they drove home to a house that was suddenly very quiet, and there was nothing left to hand them.

Most clinics do what they can - a sympathy card, a paw print in clay, a call a week later. It matters, and it also ends. Grief after a pet’s death tends to last months, and the hardest stretch usually arrives in the ordinary days afterward, when your clinic is no longer part of the picture.

That is the gap GriefPaws was made for. It asks nothing of your team beyond a card handed across the counter.

A way to keep caring for them after they leave.

Nothing for your team to hold

There is no account to set up, no dashboard to check, and no software touching your practice management system. You hand the client a card. Everything after that is ours.

Written by a licensed therapist

Every message is written by Lisa Havelin, MA, LMFT, who has spent decades in grief counseling and the study of the human-animal bond. When a client asks who is behind it, you have a real answer.

Your care goes home with them

The support arrives the next morning, and the morning after that. It carries something of the visit with it - the sense that someone understood what this animal meant.

What your clients receive after pet loss

A daily text message

A short, grounding note every morning - validation, comfort, and a gentle place to rest their attention. Small enough to read on the way to work.

A weekly reflection by email

A longer guide into the feelings underneath the loss: guilt, the shape grief takes over time, what the body carries, and practical ways to cope.

A private space to release

They can reply to any message as a kind of journal. It is one-way - no one reads or answers - so they can say the thing they are not ready to say out loud to anyone.

How the referral works for your clinic

Three steps, and only one of them is yours.

Tell us where to send the cards

We mail a stack of referral cards and a rack card for the waiting room, at no charge.

Hand one to the client

At an end-of-life visit, or tucked into the sympathy card you already send. There is no script to remember - the card says what it needs to say.

We take it from there

They scan the code and subscribe for $8.99 a month, or begin with thirty days free through one of our ebooks. Nothing else is needed from your team.

What clinics usually give clients after euthanasia - and what’s missing

Most practices have found their own way of marking the loss. A sympathy card signed by the team. A clay paw print. A clipping of fur in a small envelope. A donation made in the pet’s name, or a call a few days later to see how someone is doing.

These matter more than people tend to say. They are often the thing a client keeps for years. But every one of them lands in the first week, and grief after a pet’s death does not stay in the first week. It settles in around the third, when the routines are still shaped like the animal and everyone else has moved on.

That later stretch is the part almost nothing reaches. It is quiet, it is long, and it happens well after the last contact your clinic has with the client. GriefPaws was built for it - not to replace the card or the paw print, but to keep going after they have done their work.

What we ask, and what we won’t.

We would rather be plain about this than have you wonder.

What we ask of your clinic

Mention GriefPaws when it feels right at an end-of-life visit. Hand or mail the client a card - we supply them free. Keep a rack card at the front desk, if you have room. And tell us if the language isn’t landing, so we can make it better.

What we will never ask

No fee, subscription, or minimum from your clinic. No contract, no term, no exclusivity. No software, no integration, and no client information shared with us. No revenue share or commission, in either direction.

Who writes the messages

Lisa Havelin, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent decades in grief counseling and in the study of the bond between people and their animals. She writes every GriefPaws message herself.

It matters for a referral. When you point a client toward GriefPaws, you are pointing them toward a clinician’s work - someone who has sat in the room you have sat in, and who chose her words knowing what that room is like.

Voices of support

“The daily messages helped me process my grief in small, manageable pieces. It’s like having a gentle friend who truly understands.” - Anonymous subscriber

“I didn’t realize how much I needed permission to grieve. GriefPaws gave me that, along with beautiful ways to remember my Luna.” - Anonymous subscriber

Request free referral cards for your clinic

Tell us where to send them and we’ll mail a stack of client cards along with a rack card for the waiting room. They’re free, there’s no obligation, and no one will call you unless you ask us to.

To request cards, email care@griefpaws.com with your name, your clinic, and a mailing address. We’ll put them in the post within a week, and we won’t add you to a marketing list.

Questions we get

FAQ

  • No. The cards are free, and there is no fee, subscription, or minimum for your practice. Clients subscribe on their own at $8.99 a month if they choose to.

  • No. There is no contract, no term, and no exclusivity. You can stop handing out cards whenever you like, and you don’t need to tell us.

  • No. GriefPaws offers gentle, non-clinical messages of comfort and reflection, written under the guidance of a licensed therapist. It is not therapy, counseling, or crisis support, and it does not replace professional care. We say this plainly to clients too, and every message carries crisis resources.

  • No. We never ask for client names, records, or contact details. Clients sign themselves up. Nothing touches your practice management system, and there is no data exchange to worry about.

  • GriefPaws is not a crisis service, and we say so clearly. Clients are pointed to 988 in the US and Canada, or to local emergency services. If you’re concerned about a specific client, please refer them to professional care directly.

  • Right now clients subscribe on their own. If you’d like to sponsor subscriptions for yours, mention it in the form - we’re working through it with a small number of clinics.

  • We can share how many signups came from your clinic’s card, if that’s useful to you. We never share anything about individual clients with you, and we never share your clinic’s information with anyone.

  • No, and we think that’s the right call. GriefPaws goes out under its own name so clients know a licensed therapist stands behind the words. That transparency is part of what makes the referral worth making.

Give your clients something to hold onto.

Free referral cards, mailed to your clinic. No cost, no contract, and no one will call you unless you’d like them to.