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Ruth Hatten
Animal Relationship Coach | Naturopath + Healer
Helping you feel informed, confident and empowered in your relationship with your animal - and in caring for their physical, emotional and energetic wellbeing.
Finding the Right Support
You don’t need to know exactly what your animal needs before reaching out.
These questions will help you understand the different ways we can work together
and choose the support that feels right.
Frequently asked questions
Finding the right support for you and your animal
If you want guidance about food, supplements, natural therapies or a less complex wellbeing concern, the Whole-Animal Wellness Consult is a good starting point.
If your animal has ongoing or complex health concerns, or you’d like support to introduce changes and review their responses, consider Holistic Foundations or the Holistic Healing Journey.
If you’re looking for dedicated energetic support for yourself or your animal, you can book Energy Healing separately.
Still unsure? A complimentary Initial Chat gives us an opportunity to discuss what you’re looking for and which service may suit you.
The difference is the depth of planning and the support available afterwards.
The Whole-Animal Wellness Consult provides guidance for less complex concerns. It includes a personalised Wellness Plan with clear priorities and seven days of email support from delivery of your plan.
Holistic Foundations offers a more comprehensive assessment, detailed nutritional and wellbeing guidance, a phased plan and symptom tracking, with four weeks of support to help you get started.
The Holistic Healing Journey provides three months of support, two follow-up consultations, monthly phased plans and updated dating symptom tracking diaries. We have time to observe your animal’s responses, make adjustments and work through challenges together.
The programs bring together a deeper assessment, detailed personalised guidance and support to help you put it all into practice. They give us time to understand how your animal responds and what they need as their care progresses.
Your Signature Holistic Wellbeing Plan brings the whole picture together: your animal’s health history, nutrition, physical, emotional and energetic wellbeing, environment and relationship with you. It explains the patterns I’ve identified, our priorities and the reasoning behind my recommendations, helping you understand both what to do and why.
Where needed, this includes a personalised real food diet plan, with daily and batch quantities, preparation guidance, recipes and suitable commercial alternatives. Supplement and herbal recommendations explain their purpose, quantities and frequency. Lifestyle, environmental and energetic guidance help you support your animal beyond their food bowl.
Your phased support plan turns those recommendations into manageable steps. You know where to begin, what to introduce next and what to observe. Your personalised symptom tracking table helps you recognise changes and patterns that might otherwise be difficult to notice or remember.
The ongoing support gives you space to ask questions, share observations and work through difficulties. If your animal won’t eat a recommended food, you’re unsure about a response or something feels unmanageable, you have guidance as you navigate it.
Holistic Foundations provides four weeks of support to help you establish these foundations.
The Holistic Healing Journey extends that partnership over three months, with two follow-up consultations and monthly phased plans. This allows us to review progress, revisit priorities and adapt recommendations as your animal’s needs evolve.
Throughout either program, the aim is to help you develop a deeper understanding of your animal, feel more confident making decisions and build practical skills you can continue using beyond our time together.
Consider both your animal’s needs and how much guidance you’d like along the way.
Holistic Foundations is a good fit if you want a comprehensive assessment and personalised plan, with four weeks of support to introduce recommendations, ask questions and build confidence. It suits guardians who feel ready to continue more independently once those foundations are established.
The Holistic Healing Journey is particularly valuable when your animal has longstanding or multiple health concerns, previous approaches haven’t brought lasting improvement, or you’d feel more supported having someone alongside you for longer.
Over three months, we have time to introduce changes gradually, observe responses and make informed adjustments. Two follow-up consultations, monthly phased plans and symptom tracking diaries allow your animal’s care to evolve, with guidance as new questions or challenges arise.
You don’t need to choose based on complexity alone. Wanting more time, reassurance and support is also a good reason to choose the longer journey.
By the time we meet, I’ve already reviewed your detailed questionnaire, your animal’s health history and relevant veterinary records. We don’t need to spend our call starting from the beginning.
We use this time to explore what matters most, clarify details and discuss your animal’s needs alongside your observations, concerns and circumstances. It’s also an opportunity for me to understand what feels manageable for your household, so the recommendations are practical for your life together.
Your Connection Call is one part of approximately three hours of personalised assessment and planning for the Whole-Animal Wellness Consult, or four to six hours of initial assessment and planning for the programs. Much of the work happens before and after we meet, when I bring everything together and prepare your written guidance.
You’ll receive a recording and transcript so you can revisit our conversation.
Your plan helps you make sense of your animal’s needs and understand where to focus your attention.
It brings my assessment and recommendations together, explaining what I suggest, why it matters for your animal and how to put it into practice. Depending on their needs and your chosen service, this may include nutrition, supplements, herbs, emotional and energetic support, and changes to their environment or routines.
You’ll have clear priorities and guidance about what to observe, helping you feel more confident about your next steps.
No. We’ll consider your animal’s needs alongside your time, budget and capacity to make changes.
Your plan identifies priorities so you can focus your efforts where they’re most useful. The programs also include phased guidance, showing you what to introduce first and what comes next.
Introducing changes thoughtfully gives your animal time to adjust and helps us understand their responses. If something proves difficult, the support included in your service gives you an opportunity to ask questions and discuss it.
Your animal’s preferences and your circumstances are important parts of the planning process. Please share what you already know about foods they won’t eat, supplements they struggle with or routines that are difficult for you.
If a recommendation proves challenging, let me know during your included support period. We can explore suitable alternatives or adjustments. A plan needs to work in your everyday life for you to be able to follow it consistently.
Your Whole-Animal Wellness Plan or initial Holistic Wellbeing Bundle will be provided within seven business days after your Connection Call, provided I have received all the information needed to complete it.
This time allows me to consider our conversation alongside your animal’s history, complete my assessment and prepare personalised guidance.
Yes. Your relationship is an important part of your animal’s life, and your experience as their guardian matters too.
Alongside their physical care, we may explore emotional needs, communication, boundaries, routines and the atmosphere within your home. We can consider how to help your animal feel more secure and understood, while also supporting you to feel more confident and connected.
Caring for an animal through illness or uncertainty can be demanding. There is space in this work for what you’re experiencing, as well as what your animal needs.
Yes. My nutritional, naturopathic and energetic services can complement your animal’s veterinary care.
Please share their current medications, supplements, veterinary records and relevant test results so I can take these into account. You don’t need to choose between veterinary care and a whole-animal approach; they can form part of your animal’s wider support.
The Whole-Animal Wellness Consult includes seven days of email support from delivery of your plan, for questions about putting the recommendations into practice.
Holistic Foundations includes four weeks of support as you introduce changes and observe your animal’s responses.
The Holistic Healing Journey includes three months of support, two follow-up consultations and monthly phased plans, giving us time to review progress and adapt your animal’s care.
Support gives you somewhere to bring your questions and observations. You’re encouraged to share difficulties as well as improvements, because both help me understand how things are going.
You’ll have your written guidance to continue referring to, along with the understanding and practical experience you’ve developed while caring for your animal.
If you’d like further input, you can book an Express or Follow-Up consultation. These provide dedicated time to discuss questions, reassess your animal’s needs or review changes in their health and circumstances.
Energy healing offers dedicated space to support the emotional and energetic aspects of wellbeing. You might feel drawn to it when your animal is experiencing stress, illness, change or transition, or when you’d like support for your own wellbeing as their guardian.
It can be booked independently or alongside nutritional and naturopathic care. You don’t need to be enrolled in a program to access it.
If you’re unsure whether to begin with energy healing or a consultation, we can discuss what you’re seeking during a complimentary Initial Chat.
Add-ons let you include additional assessment or support according to your interests and your animal’s needs.
For example, the Animal–Guardian Relationship Astrology Assessment offers a written exploration of your relationship through astrology, while an energy healing upgrade adds dedicated healing sessions to an eligible program.
Each add-on has its own purpose and fee. You can view the available options when booking and choose those that feel relevant to you.
Your consultation or program considers your animal’s energetic wellbeing and may include an energetic assessment and practices you can use at home.
Dedicated energy healing sessions provide additional time focused on this aspect of care and are booked separately or through an available upgrade.
The Holistic Healing Journey offers an optional Sacred Healing Journey and Sacred Guardian Healing Journey upgrade, allowing you to include dedicated remote energy healing alongside your animal’s ongoing program.
Would you like to better understand your animal and the relationship you share?
This personalised written assessment uses astrology to explore your relationship at the time of your consultation. It offers insight into the emotional dynamics between you, your individual needs and areas where greater understanding and support may be helpful.
The assessment can bring attention to themes that may be difficult to recognise or express in everyday life, including:
• Emotional needs, trust and personal boundaries.
• Communication and feeling heard.
• Security, belonging and changes within the home.
• Giving and receiving love, affection and attention.
• Balancing closeness with independence, and activity with rest.
Looking at your relationship in this way can offer a fresh perspective on challenges you’re experiencing together, helping you recognise where your needs differ and how you might better support one another.
You’ll receive my assessment and analysis in writing after your consultation, allowing you to reflect on the insights and return to them over time. No additional appointment is needed.
Your animal’s birth details are not required. However, if you know their date, time and place of birth, you’re welcome to share these with me, as they can add another layer to the assessment.
Available as an optional add-on to the Whole-Animal Wellness Consult, Holistic Foundations and Holistic Healing Journey.
You’re welcome to book a complimentary Initial Chat. Tell me what’s happening for your animal, what you’ve already tried and where you’d appreciate support.
We can talk through the options together so you can make an informed decision about where to begin.
Yes. I work with animal guardians across Australia and internationally. Consultations take place via Zoom, allowing you and your animal to remain in familiar surroundings without the stress of travelling.
Before we meet, I review your questionnaire, your animal’s health history and relevant veterinary records. Together with our conversation and your observations, this information allows me to prepare personalised guidance for your animal.
Energy healing is also offered remotely.
Your fee covers the assessment, personalised guidance and support listed in your chosen service.
Food, supplements, herbs and remedies are purchased separately unless specifically included in the service description. Optional add-ons also have separate fees, which are shown when booking.
Please let me know your budget and any products you already use. This helps me consider what’s practical, identify priorities and avoid unnecessary duplication when preparing your recommendations.
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