Eight services. One quiet method.

The first six services on this page — puppy, obedience, aggression, reactivity, separation anxiety and barking — are the issues owners contact me about. The last two — in-home and online — are how the work actually gets delivered. Every one of them comes back to the same thing underneath: closing the leadership gap so the dog can finally stand down.

I don’t teach a separate “aggression program” and a separate “puppy program,” because dogs don’t separate themselves that way. A reactive dog and an anxious puppy and a noisy 8-year-old retriever are all telling you the same thing through different volume settings: nobody in this household has clearly taken the job of decision-maker, so I will. The work is to take that job back, calmly, in a way the dog can read.

That’s why method-wise these eight services collapse into one approach — calm, clear, non-negotiable leadership, applied in your real environment with your real dog. What changes is the application: a 12-week puppy needs a different starting move than a 4-year-old shepherd with a bite history. The principle does not move.

Every one of the eight services runs through the same structure underneath. We start with the Free Behaviour Test or a phone conversation so I know what I am walking into before I drive. For in-home cases, the consultation itself runs three and a half to four hours in your real environment — your kitchen, your front yard, the lead and harness you already own, the kids and other dogs that are part of the household. I observe the dog first, then teach the Five Rules of leadership to everyone in the room, then we put them into practice with the dog right there. Most owners feel the shift inside the first hour. Online cases run the same structure across two or three shorter video sessions with written work between them.

Within 48 hours you have a written plan covering the protocols we worked through, the management changes the household needs to make, and the order to apply them. Email support runs for about a fortnight after the session as the new pattern beds in — that is when the questions tend to surface, and they are usually small and quick to answer. Follow-up consultations are available for owners who want a tune-up months down the track, after a house move, a new dog, a new baby or any of the other life shifts that change the household picture.

What you will not get from me is a boot-camp or board-and-train option. The dog is not the problem. The dog is the symptom of the household leadership pattern, which means the work has to happen inside the household. Sending the dog away for two weeks produces a dog that listens to the trainer and a household that has not changed — so the dog reverts within a fortnight of coming home. I would rather coach the humans once, properly, in your real environment, and have the change hold for the next decade.