Does your dog struggle with challenging behavior?

Challenging behaviors can be overwhelming, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Qualified canine behavior counseling provides expert, science-based guidance to help your dog feel safe, confident, and understood—without the use of force, intimidation, or punishment.

How Behavior Counseling Can Help

Canine behavior challenges stem from environmental stress, past experiences, breeding or some combination of those factors. Using Applied Behavior Analysis, and proven behavior modification techniques such as desensitization and counterconditioning, your dog can learn new behavior to overcome fear, anxiety and frustration.

• Address Threat Displays with structured desensitization and counter-counditioning.
• Help you and your dog gain confidence and feel more secure in stressful situations.
• Develop a plan to reduce separation related distress when your dog is home alone.
•Redirect frustration and destructive behaviors through enrichment activities.

Anxiety • Fear • Frustration • Anger • Nipping • Biting • Destructive Behavior • Self-Harm • Hyper-Attachment • Resource Guarding

Why Work With a Certified Behavior Counselor–Canine?

Karen Comstock MA CBCC-ka, CPDT-ka, is a Certified Behavior Counselor-Canine and Certified Professional Dog Trainer specializing in helping dogs overcome serious behavior challenges. Your dog’s emotional well-being and long-term success is prioritized.

• No shock collars, e-collars, choke and slip leads
• Ethical R+ positive reinforcement techniques that build trust and confidence
• Certified expertise in canine behavior modification and resolution of complex behavioral issues

Challenging behaviors can be overwhelming, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Qualified canine behavior counseling provides expert, science-based guidance to help your dog feel safe, confident, and understood—without the use of force, intimidation, or punishment.

How Behavior Counseling Works: In Four Steps

Perform Functional Behavior Analysis while excluding the possibility of any underlying health concerns by working with your primary veterinarian. This includes itemizing Conditioned Behavior Chains and identifying the antecedents that trigger the concerning behavior.

Identify and work to eliminate environmental stressors. Determine what factors are driving the behavior and how the behavior is being maintained. Begin practicing new exercises and creating new behavior patterns to replace the harmful conditioned behaviors.

Build confidence through high repetition of very simple exercises. Build trust by vastly increasing the rate of positive reinforcement for these new easy behaviors.

Gradually increase the criteria for performance of the new behavior pattern and generalize to incrementally more difficult situations.

Get the Help Your Dog Needs

Every dog deserves to feel safe and understood. Let’s work together to create a clear path and structured plan that brings out the best in your dog.

When results matter, credentials matter.