Coaching is provided in packages of 6 sessions. Payment is required up front and is available at a sliding scale (below). Payment plans are available - please let me know what you need when scheduling your affinity call.

*This pricing structure is based on The Green Bottle Sliding Scale, developed by Alexis J. Cunningfolk www.wortsandcunning.com

Soulful Spaniel ($150 per session, $900 total) Please invest at this level if you: frequently stress about meeting basic needs and don’t always meet them; have debt and it sometimes prevents you from meeting your basic needs; rent lower-end property or have unstable housing; do not have a car and/or have limited access to a car but not always able to afford gas; are unemployed or underemployed; qualify for government assistance, including food stamps and healthcare; have no access to savings; have no or very limited expendable income; rarely buy new items due to lack of funds; cannot afford to take a vacation or time off without financial burden. Paying one session at a time is available at this level. Sessions are available on a first-come, first-serve basis through an ongoing waitlist.

Reciprocal Rottweiler ($250 per session, $1500 total) Please invest at this level if you: may stress about meeting your basic needs but still regularly achieve them; may have some debt but it does not prevent you from meeting your needs; own or lease a car; are employed; have access to healthcare; might have financial savings; have some expendable income; able to buy some new items and thrift others; can take a modest vacation annually or every few years without financial burden.

Mutually Flourishing Mutt ($500 per session, $3000 total) This is the full price for this service. All prices below this rate are discounted. Please invest at this level if you: are comfortably able to meet all your basic needs; have some debt but it does not prevent you from meeting your needs; own your home or property OR rent a high-end property; own or lease a new car; are employed or do not need to work to meet your needs; have regular access to healthcare & financial savings; have expendable income; can always buy new items; can afford to take an annual (or more frequent) vacation.

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Coaching services begin with a 30-minute virtual Affinity Call.

During this call, we will discuss:

• your goals/expectations to ensure that they’re realistic, specific, and can be accomplished through the services that I provide

• any questions you have about my philosophy or process

• why you want to do this work

During this call, we will NOT discuss:

• what I think of your dog’s behavior

• advise for how to change or manage your dog’s behavior

You can schedule your Affinity Call here.

Most of my work is conducted virtually, via Zoom. You will access our sessions via a cell phone, tablet, or computer from the comfort of your own home.

I find virtual coaching and consultations to be beneficial for a variety of reasons, including:

• accessibility for humans who live in rural areas or at far distances from me

• accessibility for humans experiencing chronic fatigue; post-traumatic stress; sensory processing differences; difficulties with attention and memory; or limited space inside the home

• ensuring that the focus of our work is on building YOUR skills and enhancing YOUR relationship with your dog

• minimizing stress on dogs who display fear and anxiety around unfamiliar humans

• less stress on my sensory system, which allows for me to use the full capacity of my clinical reasoning, communication, and empathic skills

Yes! Working together requires that we establish an agreement that clearly defines goals, expectations, and the logistics of our work. Intake paperwork also includes assessments to measure your quality of life, your dog’s sensory processing patterns, and an objective measure of your dog’s behavior.

Paperwork includes:

• a questionnaire that provides me with information about you and your dog

• a Terms and Conditions form

• a questionnaire about your experience of stress and anxiety

• a Sensory Profile

• the Dog Guardian Quality of Life questionnaire

Most of my work is conducted virtually, via Zoom. You will access our sessions via a cell phone, tablet, or computer from the comfort of your own home.

I find virtual coaching and consultations to be beneficial for a variety of reasons, including:

• accessibility for humans who live in rural areas or at far distances from me

• accessibility for humans experiencing chronic fatigue; post-traumatic stress; sensory processing differences; difficulties with attention and memory; or limited space inside the home

• ensuring that the focus of our work is on building YOUR skills and enhancing YOUR relationship with your dog

• minimizing stress on dogs who display fear and anxiety around unfamiliar humans

• less stress on my sensory system, which allows for me to use the full capacity of my clinical reasoning, communication, and empathic skills

Yes. I will meet with you inside your home when:

• you live within 30 miles of me (in the Albany, NY greater capital region)

• it is not possible to effectively evaluate your dog’s behavior via virtual consultation

• technological, physical, cognitive, or sensory limitations prevent you from otherwise accessing this work

In-home visits incur a travel fee. This fee is the same rate as your regular pricing tier, prorated for the amount of time it takes me to travel to your home and back. See pricing tiers here.

When I interact with your dog, I am gathering information on only 2 things: how your dog interacts with an unfamiliar human, and how your dog behaves when an unfamiliar human is in their home. This information may or may not be useful to understanding the issue for which you are coming to me for support.

In order to truly understand your dog’s behavior, it is necessary to gather information in a variety of ways, using a variety of methods, including:

• interviewing you and your family, and reviewing your answers on a questionnaire

• using standardized assessment tools and questionnaires

• observing videos* of your dog’s behavior in different environments

• observing your structured or unstructured interactions with your dog during virtual sessions

• interviewing other humans who know your dog, including your veterinarian, dog walker, other dog health or behavior professionals you have worked with, daycare staff, and groomer

*When the behaviors in question involve aggression or anxiety, I will not review videos in which you specifically prompt your dog to behave in these ways just so I can see it. Aggression and anxious behaviors result out of stress to your dog, and there is no reason to cause stress to your dog just so I can see their response. If you have security camera footage or doorbell recording device footage, or happened to capture a behavior organically, then we can review that. But we will not purposely stress your dog to record their behavior.

Each session is 60 minutes.

During each coaching session, we will begin by defining our goals for the session. This is often determined by you and whatever is a priority for your day or week. If you are not sure about the priority for the session, I will help you define this. From there, we choose a path depending on your needs, which may include:

• processing a difficult situation by sharing what happened and using somatic (body-based) strategies to move through difficult feelings

• problem solving a situation to identify how you can adjust the environment, communicate something to your dog, set a boundary, care for yourself or your dog differently, meet your and your dog’s needs better

• build knowledge and skills in self-awareness, sensory processing, somatic consent, boundary setting, nervous system health, understanding dog communication

• build skills and practice exercises with your dog (I will help you understand an exercise, set up your environment and camera, and then will observe you while you work with your dog so that I can tell you what you’re doing well, identify challenge areas, and help you make adjustments

• build skills and practice exercises to help you budget your sensory needs, care for your needs, and manage stress

• plan for how to incorporate learned knowledge and skills into your daily routine

Yes! This work requires that you dedicate time each day to building your awareness, knowledge, and skills. This work requires attention to your needs, your dog’s needs, and the relationship you are building together.

Sessions are designed for building knowledge and skills, understanding patterns of behavior, problem solving, and planning for how to incorporate learned knowledge and skills into your daily routine.

Homework is designed to help you build awareness of yourself and your dog, and to practice skills for yourself or with your dog that we learned in session.

You will not make progress without bringing this work into your everyday life between sessions.

I accept payments via:

• Venmo

• PayPal

• Apple Pay

• Zelle

• Cash App

• credit card (through my website)