Life with your dog should feel bigger than managing their behaviour.
Thoughtful support for dogs with big emotions and the people learning alongside them.
You didn’t bring a dog into your life just to spend your days worrying about what they might do next.
You imagined walks you could enjoy together. Days out. Adventures. Quiet moments at home. A dog you could understand and a life that felt good for both of you.
When things feel harder than you expected, it’s easy to believe you need more control, more training or a better-behaved dog.
I believe there’s another way.
My Happy Dog & Me is a mindful approach to developing skills for a life together with your dog.
By learning to notice what your dog is communicating, understand what’s happening beneath the behaviour and build their capacity for the world around them, we can create practical skills, confidence and more possibility for you both.
No harsh methods. No chasing perfection. Just a calmer, more thoughtful way to understand, learn and grow together.
A calmer way to move forward
The Calm Rhythm Method™ is the approach I use to help humans and dogs navigate everyday life with more understanding, confidence and ease.
Rather than jumping straight in to fix a behaviour, I like to slow things down and get curious about what’s really happening. What is your dog noticing? What might they be finding difficult? What are they already coping with well? And where could we gently help them build a little more confidence or capacity?
From there, training becomes much more meaningful. We can choose the skills that actually support your dog in real life, whether that’s feeling safer in the world around them, creating a little more space before reacting, finding walks easier, or helping you feel more confident in understanding what your dog needs.
It’s not about creating a perfectly behaved dog. It’s about helping you both feel more able to navigate life together, with more choice, more confidence and more possibility along the way.
Every journey starts somewhere
Whether you’re finding your feet, building more confidence together or dreaming of bigger adventures, there’s a next step that can meet you and your dog where you are right now.
Explore below and find the support that feels right for you both.
Perhaps you’ll recognise your dog here…
Every dog is wonderfully different, but many of the people I work with arrive feeling as though they’re the only ones finding things this hard.
Maybe walks have become more stressful than enjoyable. Your dog pulls, struggles to come back when called, finds it hard to settle, becomes easily overexcited or frustrated, or simply seems to find everyday life a little too much sometimes.
You might be living with a puppy who is still learning about the world, an adolescent whose confidence and independence are changing, a rescue dog finding their feet, or a wonderfully spirited dog who experiences everything at full volume.
I especially love working with dogs who are energetic, sensitive, curious and full of character — and with humans who want to understand what’s happening rather than simply suppress the behaviour they can see.
You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what kind of training your dog needs.
We’ll start with the dog in front of us, what life feels like for both of you right now, and what you’d love to be able to enjoy together.
Sometimes the best place to start is with a conversation
Every dog and every life around them, is different.
If you’re not quite sure where to begin, tell me a little about your dog, what’s feeling difficult at the moment and what you’d love life together to look like.
We can talk it through and if I’m the right person to support you, I’ll help you find the next step that feels right for you both.
See if this Guide gives you a fresh start
and a framework that can truly change things.
Dog training in Solihull, Birmingham & Warwickshire
I work with dogs and their humans across Solihull, Birmingham and Warwickshire, offering support that fits real life rather than asking you to squeeze into a one-size-fits-all training plan.
That might mean helping you make walks feel easier, build a more reliable recall, support a dog who becomes easily overwhelmed or overexcited, or simply understand what’s happening when life together feels harder than you expected.
Support can be one-to-one, practical and out in the real world, or something you work through at your own pace. Wherever we begin, the aim is to help you and your dog build the confidence and skills that make everyday life and the adventures beyond it, feel more possible.
Where I work
For practical, in-person support, I work across Solihull and the surrounding Birmingham and Warwickshire areas.
If you live further away, you’re not excluded. My remote coaching and online support are available across the UK, so we can still work together wherever you and your dog call home.
The map below shows the main areas I cover for practical in-person sessions.
Covering:
Dickens Heath, Cheswick Green, Shirley, Dorridge, Knowle, Henley in Arden, Redditch, Solihull, Coleshill, Nether Whitacre, Shustoke, Hampton In Arden, Marston Green, Tanworth In Arden, Lapworth, Earlswood, Monkspath, Birmingham, Warwickshire, West Midlands
Let’s Chat About In-Person Support
If you’d like some hands-on help, we can work together in a way that fits you, your dog and the life you’re sharing.
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