Olivia is a certified professional dog trainer who is passionate about positive reinforcement training. She breaks down the training process for each dog in a manageable easy to understand format and values open communication between trainers, dogs, and their humans.
Services
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Service Dog Training:
This includes litter evaluation, basic obedience, public access training, and task training. The training process typically takes 2-3 years and is done in a board and train format where the dog lives at Olivia’s home training studio for the first 4-6 months. The full price for a fully trained service dog is $15,000.
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Emotional Support Animal (ESA) Placement:
This service includes litter evaluation, basic obedience training, and placement with a new family. The full price for ESA dog placement is $1,500.
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Therapy Dog Training:
Therapy dogs are trained to provide comfort to others in approved public settings. Olivia offers private sessions, group sessions, and a board and train program. Prices vary depending on the format.
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Pet Dog Obedience Training:
This program includes basic obedience cues such as sit, down, wait, stay, leave it, come, leash manners, house manners, potty training, and crate training. Olivia offers group classes, private lessons, and board and train formats. Prices vary depending on the format.
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AKC S.T.A.R Puppy Certification:
This 6-week group class program helps teach puppies how to be good adult dogs in the future. The price is $175 per 6-week session.
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AKC Canine Good Citizen Certification (All Levels):
Olivia offers training for all three levels of the AKC Canine Good Citizen program. Prices vary depending on the format.
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Litter Temperament Evaluations:
Olivia uses the Volhard Puppy Aptitude Test to evaluate puppies at 7 weeks old to see which ones would be more suitable for service work or ESA work. The price is $100 for the evaluation.
Certifications
Olivia is a certified professional dog trainer.
Specializations
Olivia specializes in Service Dogs, ESA Placements, Therapy Dogs, CGC Evaluations (All Levels) and Pet Dog Obedience Training.
Training Methods
Olivia uses positive reinforcement training methods.
Customer Reviews
- – Rebecca Malstrom: I would recommend Olivia to anyone in a heartbeat! When I was looking for a trainer to work with me and my Labrador puppy, a friend recommended Olivia and I am SO grateful that she did. From the very beginning, Olivia was friendly, personable, professional, and communicative. My dog loves her, and I absolutely love working with her!
For the past few months, she has been working with us (me and my pup, Coda) and leading us through the journey of training Coda to be my hearing assistance service dog. Coda and I excitedly look forward to each one of our sessions. From the very first session, Coda was so receptive to Olivia’s training methods. Following our sessions, Coda and I practice what we learned and often take videos. I’ll send videos to Olivia and she is super responsive with feedback! She’ll tell me what we are doing well, what we can improve on, and ways that we can continue progressing in the training until the next session. She’ll ask for updates and share in our joy when Coda is doing well, and provides suggestions and support any time Coda is struggling. She understands that all dogs are different, so sometimes we may need to change our approach to training a specific skill. One major plus is that Olivia is a service dog handler herself! She understands the inevitable frustrations that come with training a dog, specifically a service dog. She is honest and upfront about what to expect when training a service dog, as well as the challenges of being a service dog handler. Within the few months that I have been working with Olivia, Coda has made incredible strides and continues to amaze me with how well she has taken to training. With that, Olivia never fails to compliment our progress as a service dog team– and that praise is always reassuring! I sincerely look forward to continuing my journey of working with Olivia to train Coda, and I am so incredibly glad that I chose this fabulous trainer!
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