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Certified Trauma-Informed Feline Grooming
All grooming services on this page are performed by a Certified TANDEM Cat Groomer™.
The Certified TANDEM Cat Groomer™ certification mark indicates that the provider’s feline grooming services conform to TANDEM Cat™ certification standards for trauma-informed feline grooming methodology, awake handling techniques, feline stress recognition, feline-specific safety protocols, and ethical grooming practices.
Select a Certified Grooming Service
The services below are offered to consumers by a provider authorized to use the Certified TANDEM Cat Groomer™ certification mark in connection with qualifying feline grooming services.
Total Reset Grooming
Trauma-informed full grooming service for cats requiring coat reset, mat removal, comfort restoration, or structured handling support.
Awake Feline Grooming
Consent-based grooming performed with feline-specific pacing, handling modification, behavioral observation, and safety thresholds.
Matting & Coat Compression Care
Certified grooming services for cats experiencing matting, coat compression, pre-pelt restriction, or discomfort from coat entrapment.
Senior & Medically Sensitive Cat Grooming
Feline grooming services performed with careful pacing, somatic observation, behavioral thresholds, and referral boundaries.
Authorized Certified Provider
This badge identifies services performed by an authorized Certified TANDEM Cat Groomer™.
The certification mark is used in direct connection with grooming services offered to the public and indicates that the services conform to TANDEM Cat™ certification standards.
Certified Grooming Standards
Use of the Certification Mark
The certification mark Certified TANDEM Cat Groomer™ may be used only by individuals authorized by TANDEM Cat™, LLC and only in connection with qualifying feline grooming services that conform to TANDEM Cat™ certification standards.
Certification does not constitute veterinary licensure, veterinary supervision, medical diagnosis, medical treatment, or authorization to practice veterinary medicine.
Continue Through the TANDEM Cat® System
This case is part of a larger Cats in the City care system. The client-facing case library helps guardians recognize what they may be seeing in their own cat. The clinical case studies provide the documented, authority layer behind the work.
Cat Grooming Case Studies
Real cats, real coat problems, and body-first TANDEM Cat® grooming decisions written for guardians.
Explore the case library →Documented Case Studies
Journal-style case documentation with figures, image artifacts, structured observations, and deeper clinical framing.
View clinical cases →How We Adapt Grooming Around the Cat
Severe Matting Cat Grooming
How advanced matting affects comfort, skin, hygiene, and movement—and how it is safely resolved.
Key Contributors to Matting
How coat compaction, friction zones, debris, and mobility changes contribute to matting.
Cat Grooming Without Sedation
How pacing, positioning, team support, and body-aware handling help many cats receive care while awake.
Maintaining Natural Body Positions
Why supported positioning affects comfort, safety, and tolerance during grooming.
Grooming Cats with Heart Murmurs
How cardiac considerations change pacing, stress load, handling decisions, and grooming strategy.
We Groom All Cats
Our approach to fearful, reactive, senior, medically complex, matted, sensitive, and misunderstood cats.
Explore Cats in the City care pathways
Use the links below to explore TANDEM Cat® authority pages, skin and coat care, transitional care, boarding, nervous-system-based boarding, medical and special needs boarding, TANDEM Cat® grooming, and location-specific cat grooming pages.
Cats in the City Home
TANDEM Cat® Authority Library
Cat Skin & Coat Care
TANDEM Cat® Transitional Care Model
New Level of Cat Care & Boarding
Boarding Built for the Nervous System
Medical & Special Needs Boarding
TANDEM Cat® Grooming
Powell Location
Beaverton Location