Professional Development

For the Love of Dogz

Practice Supervision

Practice supervision is a professional support service designed to help organisations and staff to set career goals, overcome challenges, maintain personal safety, upskill, enhance self-care and become more reflective practitioners. Practice supervision can reduce worker stress, promote wellbeing, while minimising the risk of burnout and vicarious trauma. Our programme provides unique support through an engaging, professional and animal assisted lens.  

Our experienced clinicians can also provide support through professional debriefing of critical events. Whether you’re a frontline worker or manager, our practice supervision programme can help you and your organisation to stay connected to your core values and support you to achieve your goals.

Courses

Relational Awareness and
Wisdom for Clinicians

This course provides clinicians with the fundamental knowledge, skills and attitudes required for ethical inclusion of dogs (symbolically, virtually or physically) in therapeutic settings. This course is the foundation course for all other Dogz 4 Life courses.

CIRT – Canine Integrative
Relational Therapy

Canine Integrative Relational Therapy is a wholistic therapeutic model that utilises the intuitive wisdom of dogs’ natural behaviour, behavioural learning theories, science and assistance animal training techniques. CIRT fosters relational healing, emotional growth, adaptive skills and creates resilience while developing a deeper connection with self and other.

Mentoring for Therapy Dog Teams

This program offers mentoring/supervision for therapy dog teams. Participating in regular supervision will be a key requirement of ongoing support for therapy dog teams trained through Dogz 4 Life. These sessions allow clinicians to discuss any training or therapeutic challenges/successes that may arise.

Master Classes

  • Engaging teens in therapy
  • Competence and consent (teens)
  • Medical trauma
  • Medical Professionals – special considerations in counselling
  • Puppies in the playroom
  • Complex task training for dogs included in therapeutic environments
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