Adolescent Dog Reset

Helping you understand your adolescent dog, build better communication and navigate the challenges of adolescence with confidence.

Does your lovely puppy suddenly seem to have disappeared?

Perhaps your adolescent dog has started ignoring everything they previously learned, pulling on the lead, becoming easily distracted, struggling to settle, jumping up, barking, becoming frustrated or simply seeming to have developed a mind of their own!

You're not alone — adolescence can be a challenging stage for both dogs and their owners.

The Adolescent Dog Reset is a personalised 1-to-1 programme designed to help you understand what is happening with your dog and give you the practical skills, strategies and support you need to navigate this important stage of their development.

Rather than simply teaching your dog a list of commands, we'll look at why your dog is behaving the way they are, what motivates them, how their environment affects their behaviour and how you can build the skills needed for calm, confident and reliable behaviour in everyday life.

What's included?

🐾 A comprehensive adolescent assessment

We'll look at your dog's behaviour, environment, current skills, challenges, reinforcement history and your individual goals.

🐾 A personalised behaviour & training plan

You'll receive a tailored plan focusing on the areas that matter most to you and your dog, with clear exercises and practical steps to work on between sessions.

🐾 1-to-1 coaching

We'll work together on the skills your dog needs in real-life situations, which may include:

• Focus and engagement

• Loose-lead walking

• Recall

• Impulse control

• Settling and calm behaviour

• Managing excitement and frustration

• Working around distractions

• Appropriate social behaviour

• Building independence

• Making good choices in everyday situations

🐾 Learning to use the environment as a reward

Your dog's environment can be one of your most powerful training tools.

We'll show you how to use things your dog naturally wants — such as sniffing, exploring and accessing their environment — as meaningful reinforcement, helping you build motivation without relying on food for every behaviour.

🐾 Ongoing support

You'll have support between sessions so you don't have to figure everything out on your own. You can ask questions, discuss progress and receive guidance as you work through your personalised programme.

🐾 Your Adolescent Dog Toolkit

You'll receive practical resources to help you understand adolescence, reinforcement, settling, impulse control, environmental rewards and everyday behaviour.

Why choose a clinical animal behaviourist?

Adolescence isn't simply about your dog becoming "stubborn" or needing more obedience training.

It's a period of significant behavioural and emotional development, and every dog experiences it differently.

As a qualified clinical animal behaviourist, I look beyond simply teaching behaviours. I consider the underlying reasons for your dog's behaviour, their individual needs, their environment and how we can create realistic, sustainable changes that work for both you and your dog.

My approach is science-based, reward-focused and centred around understanding the individual dog in front of me.

This programme is ideal for you if...

Your dog is approximately 6–24 months old and you're finding that:

• The behaviour you've worked so hard on seems to have disappeared

• Your dog is struggling to listen around distractions

• Walks have become difficult

• Your dog is easily overexcited or frustrated

• They struggle to settle at home

• Recall has become unreliable

• They're becoming more challenging around other dogs, people or their environment

• You're struggling to understand what your adolescent dog needs

• You want professional guidance before small problems become bigger ones

Adolescence doesn't have to feel like a battle.

With the right understanding, support and training, this stage can be an incredible opportunity to build the foundations for the adult dog you want to live with.

Let's help your adolescent dog become the confident, calm and capable adult they're growing into.

The Adolescent Dog Reset

8-week personalised 1-to-1 programme

£345

Limited places available.