A New Chapter in Healing at Cat Mama’s Sanctuary

Building a Holistic Healing Clinic for the Cats Who Need It Most

At Cat Mama’s Sanctuary, our work has always been about more than rescue. We exist to care for cats who’ve been abandoned, overlooked, or labeled “too difficult” to help. Our mission is rooted in compassion and reverence for all life—and we believe healing should honor every part of a being: body, mind, and spirit.

Now, we’re taking that mission a step further.

We are entering a new chapter: one where we’re training in a wide range of holistic healing modalities designed to support cats in a deeper, more intentional way. These therapies aren’t meant to replace traditional veterinary care—but to complement it, especially for animals who are chronically ill, aging, traumatized, or emotionally shut down.

Our vision is to create a sanctuary-based holistic healing clinic—a dedicated space where cats receive not only safety and shelter, but individualized healing care in a peaceful, spiritually grounded environment.

The Vision: What We’re Building

Imagine a quiet, light-filled space where a once-feral cat receives gentle bodywork to ease years of tension…Where a senior cat finds comfort through energy therapy…Where fearful cats are met with patience, not pressure—and healing begins the moment they feel safe.

This is the kind of care we’re working toward. Not just as a dream, but as a mission we’re actively stepping into through training, practice, and faith.

What We’re Learning

To prepare for this next chapter, we will be investing in a variety of healing certifications that will allow us to serve both the cats in our sanctuary and the broader animal community with skill and intention:

Doctor of Animal Naturopathy (D.A.N.)

Kingdom College of Natural Health

This comprehensive doctoral program gives us a deep foundation in naturopathic animal care. From herbal medicine, essential oils, and homeopathy to nutrition, anatomy, and clinical naturopathy, we will learn how to address illness and imbalance at the root. The training also covers flower essences, vaccine risks, behavior, and energy-based healing—everything we need to care for the whole animal through natural, non-invasive methods rooted in both science and stewardship.

Certification in Feline Nutrition (Cert.FN)

Supporting the body through species-appropriate nutrition

We will gain a science-based understanding of feline digestion, life-stage feeding, and nutritional therapy. This will allow us to develop personalized diets that support immune health, healing, recovery from illness, and quality of life—especially for aging or chronically ill cats.

Diploma in Feline Behavior Science & Technology (FBST)

500 hours of non-coercive, behavior-based training

Through this intensive program, we will learn how to assess, understand, and resolve behavioral challenges in a compassionate, force-free way. We’ll use this training to help feral, traumatized, and misunderstood cats work through fear, aggression, or anxiety—allowing more cats to feel safe, adoptable, and whole again.

Healing Touch for Animals®

Restoring balance through energy therapy

HTA uses light touch, sound therapy, and essential oils to balance the animal’s energy system and support healing across all levels. It’s especially powerful for easing emotional trauma, managing chronic illness, reducing stress, and providing comfort during end-of-life care. At the sanctuary, this will become a central tool in helping our cats feel safe, grounded, and more connected.

The Trust Technique®

Creating peace through mindful presence

The Trust Technique teaches us how to reduce thinking levels and create a state of peaceful awareness with our animals. This is transformational for feral or fearful cats who have lost trust in humans—it allows us to gently rebuild emotional safety without force, pressure, or control. It’s a spiritual practice as much as a behavioral one.

Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation (VOM)

Restoring nervous system balance through spinal care

VOM helps identify and repair disruptions in neuronal communication caused by spinal injury or misalignment. Using a gentle, hand-held device, it puts motion into fixated joints to help the nervous system reestablish healthy function. It’s effective for treating lameness, incontinence, digestive disorders, mobility issues, and more. This will be especially valuable for our senior and special needs cats, many of whom have experienced trauma to the body as well as the heart.

Frequency-Specific Veterinary Low Level Laser Therapy (VL3T)

A revolutionary leap in cold laser healing

VL3T combines cold laser technology with frequency-specific protocols to trigger tissue repair, reduce inflammation, and promote deep healing. It represents a new paradigm in veterinary care and offers non-invasive, drug-free relief for pain, injury, and chronic conditions. We plan to use it to support cats recovering from illness, injury, or surgery—without adding more stress to their bodies.

Animal Communication

Listening to the soul beneath the fur

We will deep our ability to communicate intuitively with the cats in our care—both living and in spirit. This training will help us understand their emotional wounds, honor their boundaries, and guide them through healing or transition with compassion and respect.

Fear Free® Certification 

Minimizing fear, stress, and anxiety in every experience

Fear Free practices help reduce trauma during handling, transport, and medical care. This training allows us to create safer, more emotionally attuned environments for our cats—especially those with feral or fearful backgrounds.

Ozone Therapy

Harnessing activated oxygen for natural healing and immune support

Ozone therapy uses medical-grade ozone to support healing on a cellular level by increasing oxygen utilization, reducing inflammation, improving circulation, and strengthening immune response. It's incredibly effective for chronic illness, infections, skin conditions, wound care, and overall vitality.

Why It Matters

For many of the cats we care for, conventional veterinary care isn’t enough. They carry wounds—emotional, energetic, or chronic—that require something more gentle, more intuitive, and more holistic. We want to offer that care.

We want to create a space where healing is intentional.

Where love is the foundation.

And where every soul is treated as sacred.

This is not a short-term project or a side effort—it’s the direction our entire sanctuary is evolving toward. A place where wellness is a daily practice, and healing is at the heart of everything we do.

If You’d Like to Support This Vision

All of these trainings—every modality we’re exploring and every certification we pursue—are part of our larger vision.

This will be a sacred space where cats can receive gentle, natural, and spiritually aligned care—where trauma is met with trust, illness with compassion, and the most vulnerable beings are treated with the dignity they’ve always deserved. A place where we don’t just manage symptoms, but support healing on every level: physical, emotional, and energetic.

This clinic won’t just serve our sanctuary residents—it will allow us to extend care to other rescues, caregivers, and pet parents who are seeking alternatives to conventional care or looking for deeper ways to support their animals' well-being.

We’re still in the process of becoming. This vision is unfolding day by day. If you feel inspired by it and want to help us bring it to life, we welcome your support—whether through a donation, a sponsorship, or simply sharing what we’re building with others who might resonate.

Healing is sacred. Sanctuary is holy. And this vision—this calling—is just beginning to take shape.