“How can connection and understanding improve your life with your dog?”
Dog guardians often come to me because their dogs are anxious, and this anxious behaviour is affecting their dog’s quality of life, and maybe theirs too.
By understanding how dogs are feeling, what is underlying the behaviour, we can better tailor a plan to help them to feel more secure, cope better and therefore often change their reactions.
If we focus on building connection, and understanding our dogs, we can help them to feel safer and change their emotional responses. In turn this can help to change their behavioural responses.
Having lived and worked with a variety of dogs with emotional issues I’ve learned a great deal about living with dogs with special behavioural needs. I’ve really seen and felt the difference it makes when taking the time to understand what’s really going on for them and focusing on their individual emotional needs.
Animal Behaviourist in Worcestershire – learn more about my story
I am a Clinical Animal Behaviourist, which means that I have worked hard to gain the right academic and practical experience to do my absolute best for people and their pets.
Anybody can call themselves a behaviourist and there are plenty of people giving inappropriate and sometimes dangerous advice out there. It has been important to me, right from the start, to make sure I am committed to high standards of ethical and effective approaches.
I have a Post Graduate level qualification in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling, a degree in Psychology and an NOCN level 3 in Canine Training and Behaviour. My code of conduct ensures that I attend workshops and seminars to keep my knowledge up to date.
I am a full member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors, and as such registered Clinical Animal Behaviourist by the Animal Behaviour and Training Council.
I am fully insured. As a full APBC member, your pet insurance may reimburse you the fees for our sessions together.
I have been working with pets and their guardians for over a decade and shape my approaches with my experiences over the years.
It is important to me that I have a non-judgemental approach to helping owners with their pet’s problem. Despite popular misconceptions, it is not usually the owners’ fault that behaviour problems develop. Even if you have made some mistakes (who hasn’t!) we can work together on better strategies. No matter how issues arise the most important factor is how to best move forwards. It is important to progress at a pace that works for both the humans and pets for long term success.
I’m based in Worcestershire but helping owners all over the West Midlands, the UK and beyond!
I have previously also appeared on BBC Radio Nottingham as a guest speaker (Expert of the week), spoken at events and carried out webinars on behaviour and socialisation.