Therapy for Dog Owners

Hounds Connect provides a therapy for dog owners called Anubis Therapy.  Anubis Therapy is a counselling service developed to help you improve your relationship with your dog, and also learn more about yourself.

I developed my therapy based on my own needs as a dog owner who was not happy with her relationship with her dogs.  I was always being told by dog trainers, or reading in books, that “It’s never about the dog.”  The problems with dog ownership were all about the owner.  

Instinctively, I felt that this was probably true.  But I didn't know what to do about it.  It seemed you either had a way with dogs, or you didn't.  I needed a therapy for dog owners!  

From that point forward, I started to get really interested with what was going on between my own dogs and myself.  I spend a lot of time working with my dogs. I also spend a lot of time on personal development work, understanding more about myself.  And now I spend a lot of time making connections between the two.  I found it fascinating that when I start to observe myself alongside my dogs' behaviour, I have great insights that help me in my own self-awareness.  The development of Anubis Therapy has been a result of that work.

Anubis Therapy is a “person-centred” listening service (based on the model by Carl Rogers), which helps people improve their relationship with their dog and understand more about themselves.  

I believe an important role that our dogs play in today's society is helping us to improve our understanding of ourselves. Anubis Therapy aids us in that work.