14/10/2025
He is the inspiration behind all the work that I do with the animals.
Seven years ago, I thought I understood dogs. I had spent my days working in rescue, pouring my heart into fostering countless puppies and finding them loving homes. But everything shifted the day I adopted one of my foster pups.
After multiple dog attacks during puppyhood, he carried deep anxiety around other dogs, an anxiety that grew with age. I desperately wanted to help him.
So, I started studying animal behaviour, exploring compassionate, science-based approaches that respected the dog’s voice. I was beginning to understand reactivity on a deeper level, but then life gave me an even bigger lesson.
I was attacked and stabbed while running my puppy school. Suddenly, I knew what it felt like to live in a state of hyper awareness, to be triggered by things that once felt safe. I had to go through my own desensitisation and counter conditioning. I had to rebuild trust in my environment and in myself. And in that process, something clicked, I finally understood what dogs with trauma are going through.
I turned to holistic, alternative healing methods for my own recovery, and they worked. So I began applying them to the dogs I worked with, blending science based behaviour change with emotional and energetic healing. I watched them heal faster. I watched trust replace fear.
Today, I help frustrated and overwhelmed dog guardians understand their dogs in a way they’ve never experienced before. I teach them to see their dogs not as problems to be fixed, but as gifts, mirrors reflecting back the wounds we’re ready to heal. Because when we listen, when we slow down, and when we meet our dogs with compassion, the change runs deeper than just “better behaviour”.
It changes both ends of the lead. 💜💜💜
