My Principles

When we are struggling with our relationship with our dog sometimes it helps to take a different perspective. My counselling service is aimed at helping you explore what else might be going on. We are all connected but we can lose sight of this fact.

Principles

  • The reason we have a dog (or dogs), in our lives is personal to each and every one of us. It follows that how we live with our dogs is also unique. There is no single ‘right way’.
  • Our dogs connect with us physically and emotionally. They respond to what we do and say, but they also act on what we are feeling and the intensity of that feeling.
  • We (the humans that is), aren’t always fully aware of how we are feeling. Some of our emotional landscape is selectively filtered out.
  • When we are struggling with something about our dog and looking for ways to resolve the problem, it can be useful to take some time to consider our side of the relationship.
  • If we start to reflect on how we are REALLY feeling we can bring things to our awareness that we had previously blocked out or didn’t consider important.
  • When we work on the areas that our dogs bring to our attention, we start to reconnect with the emotional parts of ourselves that we have been cut off from. Our dog helps us retrieve them.
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