SERVICING MANHATTAN

Meet Your Trainer:

Amy Cowan

· CPDT-KA, SFTD-CPT

Amy is passionate about helping people and their dogs better understand each other and live their best possible lives together. After spending the first decade of her career in finance and tech, Amy discovered the joy and transformative power of positive reinforcement training through her journey helping her rescue dog Theo adapt to city life. Inspired by watching Theo thrive with the right support, Amy decided to pursue professional certification to learn more about animal behavior and help other families. Amy has trained private clients and taught group classes, and she especially enjoys helping families find the right solution for their unique situations and lifestyles. Amy is also a long time cat lover, and has volunteered with cat rescues throughout her life.

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Amy’s Profile

Education and Certificates:

CPDT-KA, Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Assessed

SFTD-CPT, School for The Dogs - Certified Professional Trainer

Continuing Education:

Clicker Expo Washington DC 2023

Building Resilience for Senior Dogs - Behavior Vets Course April 2023

The Angry Gut: Links Between Digestive Health

Aggression in Dogs and Feeding the Dog the Bites You: Investigating the Neuroscience of Reinforcement in Aggression Cases

Our training practices are reward-based and rooted in science.

We adhere to LIMA (least intrusive, minimally aversive) and force-free principles. This means that we do not use ‘aversives’ or ‘corrections’- techniques that cause fear, pain, and frustration in dogs. We aim to educate clients and provide them with the stepping stones for behavior change so that clients can walk away from our training experience empowered to continue on their own.

Why Our Credentials Matter

Anyone can call themselves a dog trainer, so we make sure ours are visible: every trainer on our team is certified through a nationally recognized certification program, meaning our expertise has been independently verified. We also stay current through ongoing continuing education, like conferences and coursework, so the guidance you get is always rooted in the latest canine science.

CLIENT STORIES

What our clients say.

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Amy is no longer just our dog trainer—she has become part of our family. She came into our lives like an angel, and we feel incredibly lucky to have found her.

Before Amy, we worked with another trainer, but unfortunately, we weren’t seeing any meaningful results. We have a small-breed dog who developed anxiety issues around the age of one and a half, and we were struggling to help her.

With Amy’s patience, knowledge, compassion, and dedication, we have made so much progress, little by little. From learning to listen to cues and focus, to following relaxation protocols and building confidence, she has helped us understand our dog better and has made a truly remarkable difference in her life—and in ours.

We have since adopted another pup, who came from the streets, and Amy is now working with both of our dogs. She has taught him so much and continues to help both of them grow, learn, and feel secure. The best part is that both of our pups absolutely adore her, which says everything.

Amy has not only trained our dogs; she has taught us how to communicate with them, understand them, and support them in the best possible way. We are so grateful for her and cannot recommend her highly enough. She is truly one of a kind.

-Leica and Bobo’s Guardian