Hels4Dogs

Hels4Dogs ABTC - Clinical Animal Behaviourist
Working with all breeds. Educating and supporting owners of reactive dogs! Work with me anywhere! Sincerely,

Helena

Hi it’s me Hels ☺️

I'm here to help you and your dog succeed in living the life you always imagined. The idea for this page and business is a positive but informed approach to training, and helping you to think about the behaviour you want your dog to do. I am advocating for a movement towards you as an owner, being able to consider your dog holistically and as the wonderfully emotional and varie

d individual that they are. Consider this platform a subversion of the typical good vs bad tropes we hear so much of and an evolution towards expanding the vocabulary of owners everywhere!

​I’m offering in person sessions, zoom and virtual advice, courses, q&a’s, breed specific support, a listening ear, and a science based and informed approach to keeping your household happy and your dog’s tail waggy. We’ll be answering all the why’s around dog behaviour and helping owners support their dogs. Join me in the dog behaviour transformation and see for yourself how simple change can affect your relationship with your dog.

This one’s maybe a bit opinionated but bear with me:The best thing about my mentorship is that it is often the last plac...
03/06/2026

This one’s maybe a bit opinionated but bear with me:

The best thing about my mentorship is that it is often the last place people come to learn how to manage their dog’s behaviour.

One thing I’m incredibly passionate about is getting people appropriate advice and support.

This is where my little mentorship really comes into its own.

We collaborate, we analyse, we work through the problems, because you are consistently supported.

You’re never on your own waiting between sessions to know what to do or where you stand…we’re always working together towards those best next steps.

If you need hand holding, or are seasoned manager of a reactive dog the mentorship is the place for you to get that support and strategy that you won’t really find elsewhere easily.

I really hate hearing of my clients being abandoned by their previous (potentially less scientifically minded or methodically motivated) trainers.

That will never be me!

Let me help 🤗

Hels x

P.s book a game plan session at the link in my bio so we can chat through if it’s right for you. Doors close Friday at 5pm!

The mentorship I run is really different to the typical dog training model that you see everywhere. What it isn’t is:A c...
02/06/2026

The mentorship I run is really different to the typical dog training model that you see everywhere.

What it isn’t is:
A consultation, some follow up and that’s that.

What it is:
A supportive, feedback based approach that relies on open communication.

This looks like:

⭐️ getting together as a group to bounce ideas and be supportive!
⭐️ Having 1:1s - as many as you need - to get the work done.
⭐️ Making decisions and evaluating the best next steps.
⭐️ Gaining the theoretical underpinnings that will make you a good decision maker for your dog.

To do this effectively the mentorship is virtual!

⭐️ This means we can meet away from the stress!
⭐️ It means you can work through things and feedback.
⭐️ It means we avoid “he’s great when I’m with you but he doesn’t do it for me”.
⭐️ You get to be the trainer for your dog and we prepare and make strategic decisions behind the scenes.

When this all comes together the magic happens!

So if this has been holding you back, come and talk to me! Drop me a DM and I can tell you more about the results I get for my clients 🙌

Hels x

P.s Doors close on Friday!

If you’ve been feeling like you’re doing this all alone, I want you to know: you don’t have to be.Living with a reactive...
31/05/2026

If you’ve been feeling like you’re doing this all alone, I want you to know: you don’t have to be.

Living with a reactive dog is draining. It’s a loop of hypervigilance and guilt that can make even the most dedicated owner feel like they’re hitting a wall.

I’ve opened the doors to my mentorship program because I believe you deserve a teammate.

We’ll look at your dog’s behavior through a clinical, evidence-based lens, but most importantly, we’ll work on the human side of things too: your confidence, your boundaries, and making sure you know what you’re doing!

If you’re ready to stop guessing and start feeling supported, my doors are open until the end of next week.

Click the link in my bio to book a game plan session and see if it’s the right fit for where you and your dog are at right now. Let’s do this together 🩷

If you’ve been following along, this is for you 👇The doors to my beyond the bark mentorship programme are open - just fo...
30/05/2026

If you’ve been following along, this is for you 👇

The doors to my beyond the bark mentorship programme are open - just for next week though!

Why is my mentorship programme so effective?

1. We start off with that vet referral. We interrogate the medical position and consistently evaluate its relevance throughout the time we work together!

2. We do a thorough initial consultation. This helps us to understand what the best next steps are. If we need to do behaviour monitoring, tracking, thinking and digesting of information. We set out best next steps!

3. You start working your way through a really comprehensive behaviour course. It focusses on understanding the theoretical underpinnings behind why our dogs do what they do and how they escalate behaviour (most importantly). You start to think like a behaviourist.

4. You get to join the weekly group coaching sessions. These put you in a room with the most lovely people who are struggling just like you and who are trying as hard as you are 🩷 we do exercises, theory covering, all kinds of stuff but it’s the best bit for me because so many of my owners are so isolated!

5. Once we have completed or had a go at those initial strategies, we reconvene for more 1:1. There’s no limit to the support you can access - if we can answer a question quickly in the group we will, but there’s always follow up sessions to keep you on the right track allowing for welfare evaluation, training we might need to do and evaluation of the process.

It’s intense! It gives you a lot of support! It becomes a team effort.

The programme is built on feedback from both parties.

This is the way I work best and if you head to my page you’ll see lots of dogs that this has worked so well for!

If this sounds like something you need, let’s chat - book a gameplan session at the link in my bio.

Hels x

P.s don’t miss out as I’m only opening a few spots up and some are already gone!!

Baby babe and her autonomous dog interactions are one for the history books! Babe is the most beautiful staffies but she...
28/05/2026

Baby babe and her autonomous dog interactions are one for the history books!

Babe is the most beautiful staffies but she does have a lot of feelings about things. Babe has compounding medical stuff going on (and is having some big treatment soon). The medical stuff has always been incredibly well managed by her vet team and her owners!

Babe really needed the nuance that my mentorship can give. We knew a purely management or “operant” “skills” based strategy wasn’t going to be the one.

Babe needed to gain control of her feelings, work out who she could be friends with, how to regulate around these big spikes of emotion, and then get her to a point where she can do these things fluidly for herself!!!

Babe achieved so much but it was only through her owner’s tireless and constant working with her to teach her these things that we saw the immense progress that we did.

The power of choice is huge and Babe is a really big poster child for this. Her life would be stressful and a struggle if Debbie didn’t give her the choices she does every single day.

It was a pleasure to work with you and to call you a friend Debbie! 🩷

Hels x

P.s if this sounds like something you might need, book a game plan session at the link in my bio ⭐️

27/05/2026

Heat is a huge exacerbating factor for behaviour issues. If we are hot and bothered then we’re going to be feeling worse about things we already feel weird or uncomfortable with.

There’s all the advice out there about walking dogs in heat which is so useful and important to remember but don’t forget that learning can also be affected by extra stress too - I.e. heat!

What are you doing instead of training and walking in the heat with your dogs?

Hels x

What life can feel like when things finally get clearer! Ember was struggling with big feelings and struggling majorly w...
26/05/2026

What life can feel like when things finally get clearer!

Ember was struggling with big feelings and struggling majorly with recovery from those big feelings!

Her owners work tirelessly to give her all the outlets, all the support, never pushing her too far and also being really careful not to over-expose her to triggers.

Dogs are big thing for ember - whether that’s because she was abandoned with pups and another dog or just something we’ll never know about.

After a big pain assessment following some clear markers - haunch and knee nibbling, slow recovery, very big reactions - we got to the bottom of her pain.

With this being managed she is having some really nice interactions with other dogs, and showing signs of learning happening!!

Change is slow but you know my mantra!

the slower the change the more robust and likely it is to stick!

Super proud of all of you Alan!

Hels x

If you’ve been stuck for a while, are not sure what to do next, saw some progress but it’s dipped or plateaued…

Then I might be able to help you best!

Book a game plan session at the link in my bio!

What would I tell 23 year old Hels with her challenging dog, and if you are a reactive dog owner, I’m saying this to you...
25/05/2026

What would I tell 23 year old Hels with her challenging dog, and if you are a reactive dog owner, I’m saying this to you now:

🩷 I would tell her that it’s not her fault.
🩷 I would tell her that sometimes things are hard, but we’ll learn a hell of a lot.
🩷 I would tell her that getting help and learning to do the work herself is the only way she’ll get through.

🩷 I would tell her that it’s not always a case of training the behaviour away.

Sometimes we don’t have too many options.

🩷 I would tell her most of all that she did not fail.

My journey within animal behaviour has been a personal one. Anyone looking inwards will see that I’m the person that had a difficult dog, retrained to “try to fix them” but that’s not the case.

I lost Huxley before retraining and while struggling really badly with his behaviour. There was a lot going on behind closed doors and he was a poorly dog. It was flukey because 9/10 it does not go this way. I lost him at 4 years old. I was 23 and devastated.

It was really the motivation to not have other dog owners feeling the same way I felt, lonely, with nowhere to turn, very little clarity, that focussed my brain on what I wanted to do.

There’s really no isolation like it… having a dependent creature that could hurt people and other animals, or that stops you going out and feeling relaxed.

This is why I created the mentorship and why I strive to work my absolute hardest to support the owners that join and are dedicated to their dogs.

I’m looking specifically for owners that really want to learn to work with their dog’s behaviour in a way that will get them results, help them understand the why and show them how to think like a behaviourist.

If this sounds like you…. Please drop me a direct message because I want to work with you.

Hels x

P.s the song on this post was our car ride song. We’d sing it together on our way to training 🥺🩷

Just before I kick of my biggest free training week to 500+ totes emotes dog owners I want to reflect on a few things I’...
24/05/2026

Just before I kick of my biggest free training week to 500+ totes emotes dog owners I want to reflect on a few things I’ll *always* prioritise!

⭐️ You not feeling judged and being able to be open with me is so important to me. If your dogs bitten then I want to know, I won’t judge and I certainly won’t tell you to put them to sleep immediately! I want you to feel comfortable sharing your experience.

⭐️ I want it to be clear that the human experience is paramount to me. Dog welfare always improves when human welfare does! So your wellbeing is at the heart of everything we implement!

⭐️ a little like a dog with a bone, if we haven’t found the root cause of things yet, I won’t stop until we do!

⭐️ I am constantly learning to create a better outcome for you and your dog.

⭐️ your journey and experience is unique. No matter how similar it is to someone else’s, you have your own story and that needs its own approach!

⭐️ sometimes outcomes aren’t always positive, and I will never force my opinions on you, I will guide, support and advise whenever you need me.

Let me know in the comments if these are things you look for in a behaviourist 👇

And see you tonight for the kick off call at 7pm. If you’re signed up then it’ll be in your inbox later on!

Hels x

23/05/2026

What would I do as a clinical animal behaviourist if I had a reactive dog?

There’s so much but my top 3 tips have to be these ⬇️

1. Medical investigations straight away!! Especially if this is something new, your dog is older or suddenly using reactive or aggressive behaviour as a new way of communicating emotions!

2. Exposure!! Gradual, balanced, with a clear strategic plan behind it. Not winging it ever! You need to know how to do this in a way that works for your dog and that where the next tip becomes even more relevant!

3. Get someone to help. Preferably a Clinical Animal Behaviourist.
If I wasn’t an expert I’d really be looking for one that can help me in a proven, science based way with my dogs best interests at heart. So tbh that’s where I come in for you.

I’m running a FREE 5 day dog walk reset for reactive dogs from 25th-29th May which will help you get advice and tips!

If you need to go deeper, you know you want this year and summer (yes summer now’s the time to think about that) to be the best yet without the stress fear and anxiety of what your dog might do…

Or you want to be able to just walk them without the need to make it a military expedition then sign up to the low cost vip sprint running along side it.

I’m here to help and I just want to see you and your dog succeed.

Comment Bark below to sign up for free!

Prechallenge session is tomorrow!!!!

Hels x

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