A lifelong learner, a compassionate trainer, and your dog’s quiet advocate.

My journey with animals began in 2008 at USK College Gwent, where I studied Level 3 Animal Management alongside an NVQ Level 2 in Agriculture. What started as a love for animals quickly became a lifestyle. While studying full-time, I was asked to farm-sit for a tutor—and that one job snowballed into a thriving farm-sitting, pet-sitting, and dog-walking business. It was busy, hands-on, and so full of joy.

When I became pregnant with my daughter, Rose, I made the decision to shift my focus. I stepped away from the physical work of farm-sitting and returned to my original goal: studying behaviour. I volunteered in rescue centres across Essex and London, including the National Animal Welfare Trust, Celia Hammond Animal Trust and Wag Tails rehoming, These experiences changed everything. I saw the emotional realities of animals with trauma and poor starts in life—and I knew I needed to understand them on a deeper level.

That led me to study Level 5 Canine Behaviour and Psychology through Compass Education, an ABTC-accredited course that laid the scientific foundation for how I work today. But I didn’t stop there. I trained with CIDBT and gained advanced training skills, the IMDT and the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT). APDT was fantastic and showed me the door that I had been looking for. The way I could learn to look through different lenses. I later explored specialist pathways through Karen Pryor Academy, Sarah Whitehead, Michael Shikashio, and Grisha Stewart’s Academy. I’m proud to say I’m now a CBATI Knowledge Assessed Trainer, able to teach Behaviour Adjustment Training (BAT) — a method rooted in safety, choice, and self-regulation for dogs who struggle in the world.

Over time, I began running puppy classes—but I quickly realised that cookie-cutter classes didn’t serve every family. Some needed more time, more understanding, more flexibility. That’s when I found Kids Around Dogs (KAD), and became a proud KAD Professional. The neurodivergent course was brilliant, not just helping dogs in the home but doing so with understandingof the childs specific needs too, I offer school talks, dog-in-school assessments, and 10-week xenophobia protocol (based on CBT) have become a huge part of what I offer. Supporting children and families is something I care deeply about — especially helping them build safe, respectful, joyful relationships with their dogs.

One of the most transformative courses I’ve taken was Kristina Spaulding’s Unlocking Resilience Master Course — a six-month, honours-level deep dive into the science of stress and resilience in dogs. With live sessions twice a week and in-depth assignments, this course gave me the tools to truly understand how stress affects the whole dog: not just their behaviour, but their digestion, health, and ability to learn. It taught me how homeostasis and allostasis form the foundation of behavioural work, and why helping a dog return to calm baseline is essential before any learning can truly begin. That understanding shapes how I work every single day.

I now work holistically, combining behavioural science with compassion, communication, and lived experience. I look at the dog in front of me through multiple lenses — not just their behaviour, but their nervous system, their body language, their history, and their genetics. I believe dogs are deeply sentient beings, and deserve training that honours that truth.

Moving forward, I hope to become Fear-Free certified, continue my education with COAPE, and one day be skill-assessed under Grisha Stewart’s Academy to help bring those teachings to more UK professionals. I’m passionate about ethology and Kim Brophy’s L.E.G.S. model, and I always, always want to learn more.

But most of all, I want to help families see their dogs clearly — as individuals with feelings, needs, and potential. I want to help you build a relationship that’s built on trust, understanding, and joy.