Hybrid Coaching Options

  • Best of Both!
  • Perfect for busy people and/or those that need extra support.
  • Assessment session is done in-person, by me, follow-up sessions are online
  • Assessment sessions only available in Dundee, Perth, and Surrounding areas
  • Follow-Up sessions are recorded so you don't have to remember every detail
  • Shorter, more frequent follow-up sessions, are perfect to monitor progress and make tweaks
  • More checkpoints offers more support and less overwhelm
  • Uses videos to monitor progress
  • Videos can be rewound, replayed, and paused for maximum benefit
  • I'll meet you and your dog and get you started in-person
  • Follow-ups not dependant on weather, daylight, or your dogs mood that day!
  • Ideal for separation anxiety which is mostly monitored via remote camera anyway
  • Great if you aren't always in the same place, as long as you have internet we can keep the momentum going

In-Person Coaching

  • Available in Perth, Dundee and the surrounding areas
  • Techniques are practised together in longer sessions
  • Might suit large families that want to be united in the sessions
  • Assessment done in-person, by me
  • Longer assessment sessions as the dogs behaviour is dependant on the environment, and their mood, on the day
  • Perfect for people that need support while working with their dog
  • In your own home/area

Online Coaching

  • Perfect wherever you are in the UK, or even the world!
  • Sessions are recorded so you don't have to remember every detail
  • Shorter, more frequent sessions, to monitor progress
  • Uses videos to assess and monitor progress
  • Videos can be rewound, replayed, and paused for maximum benefit
  • No waiting for appropriate situations to come along ie waiting for other dogs to distract/trigger your dog
  • Not dependant on weather, daylight, or your dogs mood that day!
  • Great for anxious dogs as no strangers coming into your home, some humans prefer this too!
  • Ideal for separation anxiety which is mostly monitored via video camera anyway
  • Great if you aren't always in the same place, as long as you have internet we can keep the momentum going

Anxiety

Pro’s and Con’s of dog training crates

Dog training crates are becoming increasingly popular. Used well, your dog will love their crate, but they aren’t for everyone. Here are some of the pro’s and con’s of crates and how to use them.

Clicker training your dog

There are tons of benefits to be gained from clicker training your dog, in fact, I recommend it to more than half of my private behaviour clients! In this blog, I’ll share some insight as to why that is, and…

Stress Management for Anxious and Reactive Dogs

There are several things we need we need to consider when we are working through a rehabilitation plan with an anxious or reactive dog. How we handle the main event is actually only one part of it. So, in this…

How to socialise an aggressive or reactive dog

In this blog I want to talk about a subject that many of my clients struggle with. That is how to socialise a dog that exhibits reactive or aggressive behaviour. This is something that a lot of people struggle with…

Do dogs need rules and boundaries?

small brown dog with big pointy ears looking very happy

Trainers talk about dogs needing rules and boundaries all the time. Aversive and balanced trainers tell us we need them because they make our dogs compliant and submissive. They use them as an excuse to punish dogs. I think dogs…