There are many people, locally and across the UK, who offer services as a 'dog trainer', 'dog behaviourist' or 'dog psychologist'.

Sadly, in an unregulated industry, they are able to do so without any proper education and/or qualifications.

They are 'self-styled' and can only cite "long experience", should you ask about their competence - which is just a smoke-screen.

Many of my clients, across my range of services, have been to such people prior to engaging my services.

Around 60% of my Behaviour Assessment/Consultation clients have previously been elsewhere - either to unqualified people, or to people with dog TRAINER qualifications and/or accreditations - masquerading as 'behaviourists' thereby taking on work beyond their proven competence, or to people with qualifications who are unaccredited - that is, they have not been (or have failed) an independent test of their competence and their behaviourist-related knowledge may be lacking and/or they lack the many other personal skills that are required to identify behaviour modification programmes for each individual dog-owner partnership - essentially they only offer a 'one-size-fits-all' consultation where you get the same advice regardless of the problem and the individual dog.

I regularly attend courses and seminars across the UK that are delivered by nationally and internationally renowned dog training & behaviourist experts, Veterinary Behaviourists and even a Veterinary Neuroscientist!(Dr Kathy Murphy). Below you will find a list of some of these - the list is periodically updated but will rarely be up to date because of the frequent courses I attend to ensure that my clients get the best advice, based upon the most up to date scientific approaches.

More training and courses are always planned – you are NEVER too old to learn and no decent dog trainer or behaviourist should think that they “know everything”!