Diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling (Canine) + Mentorship
Transform Your Career with My 14-Week Canine Behaviour Mentorship Programme
Whether you’re just starting out in canine behaviour counselling or already offering services and looking to build confidence and refine your expertise, this 14-week mentorship programme is designed for you. With expert guidance, practical tools, and personalised support, you’ll gain the skills and knowledge to excel in your profession.
This programme is ideal for those offering behavioural advice, including:
- Behaviourists in Need of Advice and Additional Support: Receive guidance on challenging cases and build confidence.
- Aspiring and New Behaviour Counsellors: Start your career with structured learning and expert mentorship.
- Dog Trainers: Expand your knowledge of canine behaviour to address more complex issues.
- Veterinarians and Vet Nurses: Enhance your understanding of behaviour to complement your clinical expertise.
- Rescue and Shelter Staff: Gain the tools to manage and rehabilitate behavioural challenges in dogs under your care.
- Professionals Working Towards CAB/CCAB Accreditation: Access tailored support to help you work towards certification.
- Those Setting Up Behaviour Clinics: Learn how to establish and run in-house behaviour clinics for veterinary practices.
Not sure if it’s right for you? If you’re unsure whether this programme suits your needs, don’t hesitate to get in touch for advice. I’ll be happy to answer your questions and help you decide if this is the right step for your career.
At the heart of the programme is a CPD Accredited Diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling (Canine). To achieve this, you’ll complete a practical assignment based on a real-life case. This assignment is designed to help you practise analysing behaviour and creating behaviour modification plans—essential skills for any professional.
You’ll receive personalised support and feedback from Caroline, whether you need help refining your clinical skills, managing current cases, or simply boosting your confidence in your work.
What’s Included in the Programme
This mentorship programme provides everything you need to build confidence, expand your skills and enhance your professional portfolio:
- Expert Mentorship: Included are 4 x 1 hour private coaching sessions with Caroline*, a practising Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CAB), to guide you through complex cases and build your confidence.
- CPD Accredited Diploma Course: Gain an accredited diploma to showcase your expertise.
- Webinars and Presentations: Access a programme of webinars and live presentations on key topics, with recordings available for later viewing.
- Practical Support for Professionals: Learn to handle a wide range of canine behaviour problems, communicate effectively with clients, and collaborate with veterinarians and other specialists.
- Tools for Success: Gain skills to create actionable behaviour plans, set up in-house behaviour clinics and prepare for CAB/CCAB accreditation.
- Private Discussion Group: Join a community of like-minded professionals for ongoing advice and encouragement.
- Lifetime Access to Resources: Revisit the course materials and access the growing digital PET Resource Library, featuring research papers, articles and handouts.
- Exclusive Discounts: Receive a 10% discount on other courses available on this platform.
- CPD Documentation: Includes a certificate of completion, CPD transcript and reflection document for your professional portfolio.
All of this is designed to help you excel in your work, whether you’re just starting out or refining an existing service.
Additional Details
- Private Coaching Sessions: Bookable via Caroline’s availability calendar and must be used within six months of the programme start date.
- Group Presentations: Scheduled throughout the year, covering key topics. Recordings are available for those unable to attend live.
- No Additional Discounts: As this programme is heavily discounted, further student discounts cannot be applied.
This course includes:
- 16 modules
- Bitesize lessons
- Access on all devices
- Lifetime access
- Recorded webinar
- Downloads
- No assessments
- Certificate of completion
- CPD transcript
- Tutorial & technical support
Before you enrol:
This course includes videos with English subtitles. We design our courses to work with the way you learn — not against it. Whether you are neurodivergent, have a sensory or physical difference, or simply prefer flexible ways to study, the features below are here to support you.
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- Reading Time: Each topic shows an estimated reading time in the toolbar so you can plan your study sessions.
- Auto-Generated Subtitles: Available on all of our videos (approximately 95% accurate). Enable them using the CC button in the video player.
- Video Transcripts: Text versions of video content with timestamps, allowing you to follow along or revisit specific sections.
- Adjustable Playback: Video quality adjusts automatically based on your connection. Use the gear icon for manual control, or adjust playback speed to suit your pace.
- Feature Boxes: Key information is presented in visually distinct boxes, helping break down content and improve focus for neurodivergent learners or those with reading difficulties.
- Colour Contrast: Our course materials use high-contrast colour schemes to aid readability, particularly for learners with colour blindness or visual impairments.
- Downloadable Resources: Slides and supporting materials accompany webinars, enabling you to take notes and refer back at your own pace.
About the instructor:
Course curriculum:
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Navigating Your Course
- The PET Resource Library
- Using the Discussion Group
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Week 1: Developing a Canine Behaviour Service
- Providing a Canine Behaviour Service
- Free Access to Running Successful Puppy Socialisation Events Webinar Bonus
- Exploring Consultation Methods: Choosing the Right Approach
- Counselling Caregivers: Essential Qualities and Skills
- Hierarchy of a Dog's Needs
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Week 2: Canine Development and Some of the Factors that Influence Problematic Behaviour
- Week 2 Introduction
- Genetics and Breeding
- Canine Behavioural Development and Early Learning
- Physiological Processes and Their Impact on Behaviour
- Early Life Experiences and Their Impact on Behaviour (Webinar)
- Frustration and its Impact on Behaviour Problems
- Suggested Tasks and Key Take Home Points
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Week 3: The Human-Canine Relationship: The Potential for Problematic Behaviours
- Considering the Human-Canine Relationship
- Autonomy: Providing a Sense of Choice and Control
- Anthropomorphism and its Adverse Effects on the Dog
- Free Access to Managing Safe Interactions Between Dogs Webinar Bonus
- Suggested Tasks & Key Take Home Points
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Week 4: Analysing Canine Behaviour and Beginning the Assessment
- Week 4 Introduction
- Gathering Information
- Pain and its Role in Behaviour Problems
- Describing the Problem
- Introducing Validated Behaviour Scales
- Suggested Tasks
- Weeks 1-4 Multiple Choice Questions Quiz
Student reviews:
- Students gained practical confidence applying behavior theory to real cases through mentorship and case discussions with Caroline.
- Reviewers appreciated the flexible, well-structured content with videos and resources that fit around busy work and home schedules.
- Students valued Caroline's supportive mentoring approach, describing her as approachable, knowledgeable, and treating them as equals.
- Learners found the group sessions and one-to-one calls invaluable for discussing cases, hearing different perspectives, and building professional skills.
Based on 29 published student reviews across all star ratings for this course.
Comprehensive, easy to read and so interesting!
This course was fantastic! I've completed an animal behavior degree, but this was totally different. It was applied and I have been able to put the theory into practice straight away. Caroline is so lovely and friendly and really helps you discuss goals. I have also loved talking cases with her as she talks to you like an equal.
Massive confidence booster
Really well thought out, informative and clear set information. I thought I had a good baseline knowledge but this course has provided so much more information to enhance my knowledge and skills! Caroline is very supportive and offers resources on just about every topic you will ever need! I've thoroughly enjoyed the course and look forward to more in the future.
Worth every penny, excellent course
This course has helped me gain confidence in applying theory to practical cases. It is set out so the theory and case studies run together enabling you to put the theory in to real life situations as you go along.
The content is well laid out and easy to understand with a variety of formats, text, video, etc. and lots of supplementary information to do further research into topics.
Caroline is very supportive and is regularly updating content so it keeps up with research developments.
I would highly recommend this course.
Brilliant course!
This course has been amazing to help me expand my knowledge and gain confidence around dog behavior and training. The content is super thorough without being difficult to follow, and covers a large variety of topics and theory’s. The pet library is an invaluable resource which is packed with information about different topics, and is easy to navigate. Caroline has been extremely helpful in supporting me through the course, in my 121s, via email or giving feedback on assignments. I cannot recommend this course enough I have thoroughly enjoyed it, and will continue to access the resources provided. Thankyou!
Fantastic course
This an amazing course for anyone wanting to learn about canine behaviour. The course material is easy to understand and there is lots of supporting material to help you understand further.
Easily digestible, engaging and interesting course that has allowed me to pursue my aspirations!
Caroline is a wealth of knowledge and has created a course that is so accessible to all people with an interest in canine behaviour. Being an online course, I have been able to work on this in my own time and work around my busy life schedule. Having a mentor on hand to discuss cases and gain further insight has been a life-saver and has really inspired me to further my studies and look into furthering my qualifications in this subject.
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