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Commonly referred to as Applied Zoopharmacognosy, Botanical Self-Healing enables you to listen and authentically connect with your animal’s innate healing abilities. With compassionate guidance from My Animal Matters, let your animal lead the way.

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Commonly referred to as Applied Zoopharmacognosy, Botanical Self-Healing enables you to listen and authentically connect with your animal’s innate healing abilities. With compassionate guidance from My Animal Matters, let your animal lead the way.

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A heart to heart with your best friend

How can I help you?

Rachel animal communicator with her English pointer

Intuitive animal communication

Maybe you’ve found your way here because your animal companion means everything to you… and something doesn’t quite feel right.

Perhaps there are behaviours, changes, or dynamics that feel confusing or unresolved. You may sense there’s something deeper going on, something your animal companion is trying to express, but you’re not quite able to reach it.

You’re not alone in feeling this way.

Animal communication offers a gentle and powerful way to understand what your animal is experiencing beneath the surface, bringing clarity, connection, and a deeper sense of harmony in your relationship.

What is animal communication?

Animal communication is about listening beyond behaviour.

It’s not about fixing or controlling, but about creating space for your animal’s thoughts, emotions, and experiences to be understood in a meaningful way.

Through this process, we begin to uncover:

the deeper reasons behind behaviours
emotional or environmental influences
what your animal companion needs to feel safe, supported, and heard

How this can help you and your animal

Working with animal communication can bring:

Clarity and peace of mind — understanding what your animal is experiencing
Deeper insight — uncovering the meaning beneath behaviours and challenges
Stronger connection — feeling closer and more aligned with your animal
Guidance — gentle, practical direction on how to move forward
A shift in perspective — moving from frustration to understanding

About Rachel

Rachel has been working with animals and their guardians for over two decades, supporting deeper understanding, connection, and wellbeing through her work in zoopharmacognosy and intuitive communication.

Her approach is grounded, empathetic, and rooted in listening deeply to each animal’s feelings, needs, and perspective.

Book a session with Rachel

Rachel now offers animal communication sessions through her dedicated website, where you can find full details and book directly.

Book your animal communication session here

If you feel ready to listen more deeply and understand what your animal is truly expressing, you can explore working with Rachel there.

Book Your Animal Communication Session

Botanicals such as essential oils, hydrosols, and herbs will all be laid out...

Essential Oils

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Herbs

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While your animal intuitively selects the herb or essential oil they are yearning for, I will observe and act as your guide; informing you on what your animal is communicating and why. You will also learn about the healing properties of each of the botanicals selected by your animal.

All Animals, All Encompassing Care

Each and every animal is unique. Genetics, environment and life experiences all contribute to an animal’s physical, emotional and spiritual health.

Every animal, whether wild or domestic, has the innate knowledge to self-medicate with the use of medical compounds. These compounds are known as botanicals. Wild animals intuitively select botanicals for their survival. As our companion animals have become more adapted to their modern life, they have lost the autonomy to navigate the natural world and access the botanicals they desire.

Botanical self-healing for animals is a very safe therapy when practiced correctly and under the compassionate guidance of experienced professionals like My Animal Matters.

Key Components

My Animal Matters primarily works with essential oils and hydrosols. We also offer a range of powdered botanicals too.

Botanicals are created using a range of cellular plant structures such as blossoms, bark, flowers, seeds, roots and resin.

My Animal Matters ethically and sustainably sourced products have been created with your animal at heart.

For every product sold, we plant a tree.

Shop now to give back to your animal and Mother Nature...

What people are saying…

“Rachel is an amazing animal communicator.

The accuracy of her communications with my dog (she has communicated with him both when he was alive and again now in spirit) is second to none and I think both of us were amazed at the detail he gave her including the name of a Chiro who had treated him a few years prior.

I cannot recommend Rachel enough if you are looking for someone to communicate with your pet then Rachel is definitely the go to person.

Thank you so much Rachel Knott xx”

Carol Collins, Mum to Theo the Doberman

“Rachel is an amazing animal communicator.

The accuracy of her communications with my dog (she has communicated with him both when he was alive and again now in spirit) is second to none and I think both of us were amazed at the detail he gave her including the name of a Chiro who had treated him a few years prior.

I cannot recommend Rachel enough if you are looking for someone to communicate with your pet then Rachel is definitely the go to person.

Thank you so much Rachel Knott xx”

Carol Collins, Mum to Theo the Doberman

“My heart is overflowing.

I was blown away at the accuracy of what Rachel relayed to me about Leila’s character, her habits and her likes & dislikes, following their ‘conversation’.

I was reassured to hear that Leila was happy in our family, and that she felt safe and supported by me, and enjoyed her role as my companion and helper...

Other information that came through way of was really helpful for me, giving me fresh insights and a path forward with regards to some health issues, and some particularly helpful validations with her challenge around separation.

During our meeting, Rachel created a friendly, safe space where I felt totally comfortable to share openly. She helped me to work through some of the pieces to get more clarity, and together we were able to come up with some useful ideas to implement going forward.

The session didn’t just end there for me. In the days and weeks following our meeting, I continued to experience shifts and gain new insights and realisations with the information that Rachel had relayed, which has not only helped to deepen my relationship with Leila, but also to experience transformations within myself. Thank you Rachel, our session totally exceed all expectations!

Rachel is open, honest, wise and empathetic, and she is totally dedicated to honouring the animals she works with and their people. I would 100% recommend her without hesitation! She certainly gets a 5 star rating from me!"

Sue Mimm, mum to Leila the Labrador

“Through the experience of Rachel connecting with my beloved cat who passed, I feel a great deal of peace in knowing the messages that she received from her. I will keep this experience close to my heart forever. It really helped me to be able to see that I have not lost my cat she is still with me in spirit and always will be."

Valentina, mum to 'Gypsy' in spirit.

"Truly life changing. It was everything I hoped it would be and more! So emotional and reinforced themes that have come up previously, and my belief in our connection. Fury knows me so well! The session was incredibly emotional and I’ve felt very close to Fury and her energy since. I’m trying to implement the guidance Fury gave me. Good things have come into my life since!"

Other information that came through way of was really helpful for me, giving me fresh insights and a path forward with regards to some health issues, and some particularly helpful validations with her challenge around separation.

During our meeting, Rachel created a friendly, safe space where I felt totally comfortable to share openly. She helped me to work through some of the pieces to get more clarity, and together we were able to come up with some useful ideas to implement going forward.

The session didn’t just end there for me. In the days and weeks following our meeting, I continued to experience shifts and gain new insights and realisations with the information that Rachel had relayed, which has not only helped to deepen my relationship with Leila, but also to experience transformations within myself. Thank you Rachel, our session totally exceed all expectations!

Rachel is open, honest, wise and empathetic, and she is totally dedicated to honouring the animals she works with and their people. I would 100% recommend her without hesitation! She certainly gets a 5 star rating from me!"

This is Fury (in spirit).. and her mum is Luisa Greig, Canine Therapist

“We’ve just had one of the best animal communication sessions with Rachel who is truly gifted at what she does. What we loved about her way of working is how she approaches each session as a ‘facilitator’ for the animal and their guardian so there’s plenty of room for discussion, expansion and/or clarification.

Rachel tuned into and conveyed our dog’s essence and character so accurately.

Unlike other animal communication sessions where you might get snippets of accuracy here and there, the information Rachel relayed to us was practical and down to earth, so much so that it will help us put the right steps in place (including the use of botanicals) to support our noise sensitive and fear reactive dog”

This is Ripley, a Vizla. Guardians Jackie and Sue...

“We’ve just had one of the best animal communication sessions with Rachel who is truly gifted at what she does. What we loved about her way of working is how she approaches each session as a ‘facilitator’ for the animal and their guardian so there’s plenty of room for discussion, expansion and/or clarification.

Rachel tuned into and conveyed our dog’s essence and character so accurately.

Unlike other animal communication sessions where you might get snippets of accuracy here and there, the information Rachel relayed to us was practical and down to earth, so much so that it will help us put the right steps in place (including the use of botanicals) to support our noise sensitive and fear reactive dog”

This is Ripley, a Vizla. Guardians Jackie and Sue...

"I have just had my first ever animal communication session with Rachel and I’m completely blown away. Rachel made me feel at ease from the word go. As this was something I hadn’t even heard of until a couple of weeks ago, I had no idea what to expect, but Rachel guided me through the whole process. I’ve learnt so much about my rescue dog Otis and how I can support him with his nervousness and reactivity. I can’t wait to put into action everything that was discussed during our session. I cannot thank Rachel enough for giving my Otis a voice and for making our bond so much deeper."

Other information that came through way of was really helpful for me, giving me fresh insights and a path forward with regards to some health issues, and some particularly helpful validations with her challenge around separation.

During our meeting, Rachel created a friendly, safe space where I felt totally comfortable to share openly. She helped me to work through some of the pieces to get more clarity, and together we were able to come up with some useful ideas to implement going forward.

The session didn’t just end there for me. In the days and weeks following our meeting, I continued to experience shifts and gain new insights and realisations with the information that Rachel had relayed, which has not only helped to deepen my relationship with Leila, but also to experience transformations within myself. Thank you Rachel, our session totally exceed all expectations!

Rachel is open, honest, wise and empathetic, and she is totally dedicated to honouring the animals she works with and their people. I would 100% recommend her without hesitation! She certainly gets a 5 star rating from me!"

Hannah Turner

Rachel is so personable, I was immediately relaxed and open to something I've never done before!

I feel like I have a deeper insight to each of my animals and are able to understand them, their actions and motivations a lot better. Its taken away a lot of anxiety I have about certain things (knowing one of my cats doesn't go too far at night, my other cat now knowing how I feel about him going too far at night, and that my dog actually likes spending some of her time on her own).

As animal guardians, we naturally want the best for our animals and often wish they could speak - Rachel is the perfect bridge for this, and not only the practicalities and nuances of each personality, but in a wider context - also looking at the relationship between us and higher purpose for our connection. I would highly recommend Rachel if you want to deepen your understanding, connection and relationship with your animals.

Rachel Haywood

Rachel is so personable, I was immediately relaxed and open to something I've never done before!

I feel like I have a deeper insight to each of my animals and are able to understand them, their actions and motivations a lot better. Its taken away a lot of anxiety I have about certain things (knowing one of my cats doesn't go too far at night, my other cat now knowing how I feel about him going too far at night, and that my dog actually likes spending some of her time on her own).

As animal guardians, we naturally want the best for our animals and often wish they could speak - Rachel is the perfect bridge for this, and not only the practicalities and nuances of each personality, but in a wider context - also looking at the relationship between us and higher purpose for our connection. I would highly recommend Rachel if you want to deepen your understanding, connection and relationship with your animals.

Rachel Haywood

"I booked an animal communication session as my whippet had started wanting the day to begin at 4am. We’d tried lots of things to help her ease into the day at a more reasonable time, but nothing worked. Except this. The earliest she gets up now is 7am. It has transformed all of our lives. Thank you Rachel!"

Other information that came through way of was really helpful for me, giving me fresh insights and a path forward with regards to some health issues, and some particularly helpful validations with her challenge around separation.

During our meeting, Rachel created a friendly, safe space where I felt totally comfortable to share openly. She helped me to work through some of the pieces to get more clarity, and together we were able to come up with some useful ideas to implement going forward.

The session didn’t just end there for me. In the days and weeks following our meeting, I continued to experience shifts and gain new insights and realisations with the information that Rachel had relayed, which has not only helped to deepen my relationship with Leila, but also to experience transformations within myself. Thank you Rachel, our session totally exceed all expectations!

Rachel is open, honest, wise and empathetic, and she is totally dedicated to honouring the animals she works with and their people. I would 100% recommend her without hesitation! She certainly gets a 5 star rating from me!"

Sarah Christensen

"Rachel is an incredibly gifted animal communicator. She is empathetic and I felt deeply reassured by our session together. Rachel has an amazing ability to connect with people and animals alike and I immediately felt at ease. She was spot on with telling me about my cat Samantha's character traits. My cat Samantha is in the process of passing and it was such a gift to be able to communicate with her before she passes on. It's a gift I will treasure always. Thank you so much Rachel"

Other information that came through way of was really helpful for me, giving me fresh insights and a path forward with regards to some health issues, and some particularly helpful validations with her challenge around separation.

During our meeting, Rachel created a friendly, safe space where I felt totally comfortable to share openly. She helped me to work through some of the pieces to get more clarity, and together we were able to come up with some useful ideas to implement going forward.

The session didn’t just end there for me. In the days and weeks following our meeting, I continued to experience shifts and gain new insights and realisations with the information that Rachel had relayed, which has not only helped to deepen my relationship with Leila, but also to experience transformations within myself. Thank you Rachel, our session totally exceed all expectations!

Rachel is open, honest, wise and empathetic, and she is totally dedicated to honouring the animals she works with and their people. I would 100% recommend her without hesitation! She certainly gets a 5 star rating from me!"

Caroline

"Our Cocker Spaniel Pepper had a tumour that needed urgent removal. Through Rachel's session, we learned how Pepper felt and her wishes. The process made her treatment easier, and the vets remarked on how willing she was during blood draws. Pepper’s communication also enlightened us about botanicals she preferred afterward. I highly recommend Rachel for deeper pet insights."

Demi Mansell

"Today, my dog Freya and I had a session via WhatsApp video with Rachel. It was amazing — I felt completely at ease, and Freya seemed to as well. Rachel understood Freya’s character perfectly, which deepened our bond. Her insights helped us see each other in a new light. I am in awe of her gift."

Pauline Royle

"Rachel’s approach from the start was gentle and insightful. She connected deeply with my hamster, who had a difficult past, noticing things only he could show , including his favourite hangout spot, a big boat he loved. Her insights were spot on. I am very grateful and will definitely return for more chats with my beloved pets."

Anime Madness

"Rachel is incredibly accurate and detailed — she picked up on things no one else would know. Her training has improved as we feel more connected and I understand and know what she enjoys doing."

K. O’Keefe

"Just had my first session with Rachel, and it was incredible! She described Marley’s character down to a tea — things no one could have known, including how he reacts in different situations. Thanks to her insights, I’ll be making changes to better suit his needs. Thank you so much, Rachel, for such a wonderful experience!”

Lynette Cole

"My husband and I recently connected with Rachel to learn more about our cat's personality. Instantly, from the first moment, we felt so welcomed and at home. Rachel explained her process warmly, and her approach was very comforting. She touched on some insightful points about our cat, which made us very happy, and we were able to confirm her accuracy. It was a warm, emotional, and very special experience. Thank you, Rachel, for your kindness and for helping us learn more about our fur baby!"

Vee Pate

"Having worked with Rachel on two occasions now I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her services as an animal communicator. We were incredibly grateful for Rachel's input when we suddenly
found ourselves unable to leave our 6-year-old Hungarian Vizsla home alone. Just two weeks after taking on board Rachel's advice, our situation improved dramatically. Our entire family has benefited from the communication sessions with Rachel, and we've learned that our dogs are often our greatest teachers. Thank you, Rachel, for being the bridge between our world and theirs."

P. Lawson