Agility is more than teaching obstacles and handling sequences. To reach your potential, your dog needs clarity, physical fitness, emotional resilience, and confidence. You need the skills, timing, and mental game to bring it all together.
Monthly personalized coaching that brings together dog training, handling, fitness, behavior, resilience, and the handler's mental game. All in one customized program.
With more than 35 years of experience, Laura brings an unusually broad combination of agility, behavior, canine fitness, and sports-performance expertise to your coaching. Award-winning positive reinforcement training backed by respected, certified credentials.
Work one-to-one with an integrated performance expert.
Train the Dog -Build the clarity and understanding your dog needs to perform complex agility behaviors with fluency, confidence, and speed.
Build Resilience -Prepare your dog for the emotional demands of competition. Develop strategies for stress, arousal, distractions, and challenging environments so your dog can stay connected and ready to work.
Build the Athlete -Develop strength, conditioning, flexibility, coordination, and body awareness to prepare your dog for the physical demands of agility and support long-term athletic health.
Train the Handler -Refine your handling skills, timing, course analysis, and decision-making so you can communicate clearly and effectively with your dog.
Build Your Mental Game -Learn how to regulate your own nerves, develop confidence, and access Optimal Performance Mode when it matters most.
Five dimensions. One team. One personalized plan.
100% Customized. 100% Personal.
This isn't a cookie-cutter online course or a library of videos you're expected to figure out on your own. It's direct access to an experienced coach who knows your team, not a generic online program.
As your personal coach, I get to know you, your dog, your challenges, and your goals and build your training around them. I deliver a supportive coaching experience while keeping you on a steady path of progress.
Whether you're working toward your first competition, trying to break through a performance plateau, or chasing your next level of excellence, your coaching evolves as you do. We work on what YOU need, not what everyone else is doing. I help agility teams of all levels.
Train the skills. Build the team. Elevate the performance.
Behavior is part of the performance picture.
Over-excitedness, anxiety, reactivity, sound sensitivity, motion sensitivity, separation issues, arousal control, ring stress, and other behavior challenges can make it difficult for a talented dog to perform. Most agility instructors don't have the ability to help you with these issues.
With extensive experience and education in applied canine behavior science, I help you understand what's really happening and what to do next. We will get your dog "Ring Ready" and capable of handling chaotic competition environments. The "mental side" of agility is the hardest.
The goal isn't simply to manage the behavior. It's to build a dog who is more resilient, confident, and able to work with you when it matters. We'll take engagement and focus to a higher level.
Train with an Agility Behavior Specialist.
Compete stronger. Prevent injuries.
As a Certified Canine Fitness Trainer (CCFT), I can incorporate fitness and conditioning into your coaching plan when appropriate.
We'll consider the physical skills your dog needs for agility. Physical skills like strength, stability, coordination, flexibility, power, body awareness, and endurance.
Because better physical preparation can support better performance.
Mindset matters.
Ring nerves and competition pressure can affect even highly skilled handlers.
As a Certified Advanced Sports Psychology Coach, National Champion, and five-time world team member in another sport, I bring a unique perspective on what it takes to perform under pressure.
We'll develop practical strategies to help you regulate your nervous system, manage competition nerves, stay present, and perform with confidence.
PERSONALIZED TRAINING PLAN - Customized exercises and training objectives with demonstration videos, updated as you progress.
DETAILED VIDEO FEEDBACK - Submit training videos up to 15 minutes/week and receive specific coaching, analysis, and actionable feedback.
WEEKLY COACHING LESSONS - A 30-minute weekly Zoom call or virtual lesson to troubleshoot, teach, and keep your training moving forward. Mental Game coaching as well!
DIRECT ACCESS TO YOUR COACH - Unlimited messaging for questions, and those inevitable “What do I do right now?” training moments.
COMPETITION SUPPORT - In-person or remote support at local and major events when available.
FLEXIBLE MONTH-TO-MONTH COACHING - No long-term contract. Your coaching continues as long as it serves your goals.
Don't just train harder, train smarter.
This is for handlers who want more than a collection of training exercises. It's for handlers that want a Coach that can help with every aspect of agility competition.
It's for teams who want clarity, strategy, fluent behaviors, accountability, and a Coach who sees the whole picture. A multi-dimensional Coach that keeps you on track and doesn't let any details slip through the cracks.
Let's find the best version of you and your dog. Are you ready to develop a partnership that can perform at its potential?
Month to Month
No contract
I initially started working with Laura to address my older dog's ring stress, and the progress we've made has been incredible. Being based in Australia, I never imagined I would have access to such high-quality coaching from someone on the other side of the world, yet Laura has made that possible.
Laura is an exceptionally skilled coach with a deep understanding of how dogs learn. One of the things I value most is her ability to identify where foundational skills are missing and confidently guide both dog and handler back to the building blocks that need strengthening. Her training philosophy focuses on building resilience and confidence in dogs, which has had a huge impact on my own training journey.
Eva
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