I'm a collaborative dog trainer, author, international presenter, singer-songwriter, and keynote speaker, best known in the dog world for developing BAT (Behavior Adjustment Training). I've been helping people and dogs professionally since 2003. My work is directed at wholehearted living for all beings. For over 20 years, I've been coaching people to help dogs with a history of aggression, frustration, or fear as well as puppies. My other favorite species is humans.

My Behavior Adjustment Training (see Blue BAT book and BAT Foundations course) is used worldwide to help dogs gain confidence and social skills. Well over 200,000 people have learned about BAT so far.

As an outgoing introvert, I refresh my batteries by singing, expressing grief in community, and savoring life with my husband (Tom), Labrador (Joey), cat (Garbanzo aka "Adventure Kitty" and "Baby Panther"), and Little Brown Dog (Zuki). My pronouns are she/her and 'they' is also fine. Some identities I carry are middle age, raised in poverty and now of middle class, queer (pansexual), and neurodivergent, US citizen, European ancestry, widow, sister, aunt, wife, step-mom, cat mom, and (of course!) dog mom.

My non-dog passion projects are community building, songwriting, and woodturning.

I'm fascinated by animal behavior (including humans), somatic awareness, spirituality, and psychology.