About the Trainer

With a career as a child behavior specialist and assistant dog trainer (nights and weekends), Brooke dove into dog training full time two years later in 2015, where she was hired at Blue Dog Daycare to develop a Day School program for dogs. The program focused on training the dogs while the owners went to work and then sending homework for the owners to continue the training at home. The program was a success! A year later, she became a Canine Good Citizen Evaluator with the AKC and earned her certification through the nationally recognized Council for Professional Dog Trainers as a Certified Pet Dog Trainer, or CPDT-KA. Brooke is also a member of The Alliance of Therapy Dogs and is part of a working team with her therapy dog partner, Barney.
 

In 2017 she flew to California to apprentice under David Baron of Superdog Training and learned methods to better help dogs and their owners achieve off-leash results without relying solely on treats, clickers or e-collars. She is an advocate for training dogs with as little tools as possible, as she believes training to be relationship-based. 

Soon after returning to Maine, she attended seminars with Nicky Butler, a former working service dog trainer from the UK and Chris Fraize, a dog behaviorist with over 20 years of experience training police K-9’s. Through their teachings she is better able to read dogs and understand the functionality of behaviors. 

Most recently, Brooke worked her dog, Lily, through Beginner Novice in Linda Kaim's (Lionheart K9, Maryland) Koehler Method of Dog Training class. Under Linda's guidance, Brooke has included much of the framework of the Koehler Method into her own training program and continues to educate owners on the value of obedience in every day life.