About

Animal Communicator, Author, Energy Healer, TEDx speaker, Educator, and animal guardian Joan Ranquet leads an inspired life. It’s no surprise MSN has deemed her one of the “Top 25 People Who Do What They Love.” Her TEDx talk, “The Rainbow Bridge, Animals in Transition” has over 468,000 views.

Deemed “Celebrity Animal Communicator” in an AMC Channel documentary, Joan has been featured in dozens of media outlets including The Hollywood Reporter, “Pet Nation” on Dateline NBC, Today on NBC, Good Morning America on ABC, Animal Planet, the National Enquirer, and the Los Angeles Times.

Joan is the author of Animal Chakra Healing: Bringing Balance, Health and Joy to Our Animal Companions (Findhorn Press/Inner Traditions, 2025), Emotional Freedom Technique for Animals and Their Humans: Creating a Harmonious Relationship through Tapping (Findhorn Press, 2023), Energy Healing for Animals: A Hands-On Guide for Enhancing the Health, Longevity, and Happiness of Your Pets (Sounds True, 2015) and Communication with All Life: Revelations of an Animal Communicator (Hay House, 2007). Joan also contributed to The Dharma of Dogs: Our Best Friends as Spiritual Teachers (Sounds True, 2017) and The Karma of Cats: Spiritual Wisdom from our Feline Friends (Sounds True, 2019).

In 2008, Joan founded Communication With All Life University (CWALU), an experiential learning platform that offers beginning through advanced training and coaching in animal communication, energy healing, nature and wildlife. This can be self-paced, online and/or in person.

Joan has also taught animal communication and energy healing at Stephens College in the equestrian department, she serves as an animal expert on a web based television program called Smart Pet Talk TV. She is also featured on the Shift Network and Daily Om. 

Joan’s hands-on animal communication and energy healing process troubleshoots behavioral and medical issues, stimulates healing (in conjunction with conventional treatment), and deepens her clients’ abilities to care for and understand their animals. She believes the capacity to attune to animals and work with them energetically is not a gift for the select few, but an innate ability we can all access with guidance. Thus, she teaches down-to-earth skills that enable her students to communicate consistently and confidently with animals.

Joan has connected with animals professionally for over thirty years, and she’s connected with them personally for as long as she can remember. Her calling has led her to work with hundreds of thousands of animal guardians, animal trainers, barn managers, veterinarians, sanctuaries, wildlife, rehab and therapeutic riding centers — teaching animal communication and energy healing through workshops, wildlife retreats, and private sessions.

Joan has spearheaded trips to swim with wild dolphins (16 trips and counting). She has also facilitated wildlife excursions to South Africa, Rwanda, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya, Thula Thula, Zimbabwe, Zambia, India, and Borneo, focused on endangered species. 

Highlights for Joan are 1. teaching animal communication in Beijing, China in 2018. 2. Implementing animal communication and energy healing into a new Animal Behavior degree at Stephens College. 

In addition to foreign trips, Joan has shared her expertise all over the U.S., speaking on animal communication, human/animal relationships, energy healing, and wildlife.

Through CWALU, an Outreach department has also been born. One branch is the Shelter Initiative to create sustainable adoption through education about the new family values (that include our animal companions), books with stories around tough adoptions, and another is the Shelter Project Curriculum, where Joan and students of the Ambassador Program go in and use the tools of animal communication, EFT and other modalities to get the unadopted animals in forever loving homes. The Outreach department is also developing an International wing to be able to help communities support the most endangered species around the world. 

Joan has served as Star-Lioness – an advisory/sounding board for the Global White Lion Protection Trust – and on the Spiritual Council for The Gentle Barn. 

Today, Joan lives on her ranchette in the gorgeous hills of southern California with her devoted animal family: four horses, three dogs, and three cats.