During private coaching sessions, you will learn how to train your dog, navigate difficult situations, and resolve behavioral issues.
Sessions are one hour long and conducted in person at your home or local neighborhood, following a customized training plan tailored to your dog’s specific needs. Each session includes homework instructions to complete between sessions to ensure steady progress.
How It Works
- Getting Started: Begins with an initial assessment to evaluate your dog, set training goals, and discuss your customized training plan.
- Customized Training Plan: Tailored plans designed around your dog’s specific needs and your training goals.
- Training packages: Available as single sessions or discounted packages.
- Your Commitment: 15 minutes of homework daily (easily built into mealtimes and walks).
- Timeline: Behavior modification typically takes 4–12 sessions (2–6 months) held weekly or bi-weekly.
- Flexible Scheduling: Sessions are available on weekdays and on weekends
Also Included:
- Written training plans & exercise instruction, video tutorials
- Direct chat support between sessions for ongoing guidance.
One-on-one consultations and training sessions are conducted in your home and tailored to your pup’s particular needs. During the first initial session, we discuss your training goal and create a customized training plan. All the training methods include a modern positive reinforcement approach.
We meet weekly for a 60 to 90 min training session where I train your dog. At the session, I will explain what training exercises you can do can every day until we meet again next week. Home practice exercises are set in a way, that they will require only 10 minutes a day of your time.
Examples of things many clients choose to work on during in-person sessions: training the dog not to jump on people and not to pull the leash on walks; reducing or stopping unwanted barking; teaching the dog to be comfortable when staying home alone; training the puppy to go potty outside; socializing the dog so they are comfortable around other people, dogs, or loud noises; training the dog basic public access skills, so you can easily take your dog everywhere with you; and many more.
Benefits of private lessons:
- You and our dog decide what will be included in the training program
- Most dogs learn better in the familiar environment of their home
- Flexible scheduling
- Private sessions are customized around dog’s abilities and learning speed
Examples of what can be addressed during private dog training
- Introducing a new dog to a household
- Common puppy issues: potty training, chewing on furniture, biting, getting used to crate etc
- Resolving leash pulling and leash reactivity; heel and loose leash walking
- Recall / responding to ‘come’
- Hyperactive puppy and home destruction
- Excessive barking
- Jumping on people
- Reactivity towards other pets, small animals, bikes, kids etc
- Building confidence in fearful dogs
- Well-behaved in public
- Improving the bond between the dog and the human
- and more
How many training sessions will you require?
Depending on your dog’s abilities and current behaviors, as well as your commitment to do home practice every day, the training program will usually last from 6 to 12 weeks.