Online Separation Anxiety Course

Calm, confident alone time, built step by step

Separation anxiety is hard because it happens when you’re not there. This online separation anxiety course gives you a daily plan to change that: assess what you’re actually dealing with, build a positive association with being alone, and desensitise your dog to departures one small step at a time.

Who it’s for

Dogs who bark, howl, destroy things or toilet inside when left, puppies who haven’t learnt to be alone yet, dogs who follow you from room to room, and rescue dogs who panic at the door. In most cases you’re dealing with separation issues, a dog who simply hasn’t learnt to cope alone, rather than clinical anxiety, and that is very trainable.

What you’ll learn

• Self-assessment: is it separation anxiety, separation issues, over-attachment or attention seeking?
• The classic signs, and the key elements that make separation training succeed
• Daily training tasks for building a positive association with being alone
• Desensitisation done right, and how to tell what your dog is ready for
• Departure triggers: keys, shoes, the door, and how to make them boring
• Practising leaving, building duration, and the difference between practice leaves and real ones
• Activating your dog, and progress assessments to keep you on track
• How to fade the training out gradually so the calm lasts

What’s inside

Four weeks of lessons with daily tasks, taken at your pace. Week 1 is understanding separation anxiety and over-attachment, the signs, the key elements, your first daily tasks and an initial assessment. Week 2 is positive association and desensitisation, departure triggers and practising leaving. Week 3 advances to duration and trigger training with a progress check. Week 4 covers leaving the house for real, longer durations and fading the training away.

Where the Asset Method fits

A dog with separation issues values one thing above all: you. The Asset Method builds new value into being alone, calm time on a mat, a chew that only appears when you step out, so that alone time starts paying. Then you use the three D’s of dog training with real care: duration grows from seconds, distance from the next room, and the distractions of real departures come last, only when your dog is ready.

Why online separation anxiety training works

You can’t fix separation anxiety in a class. It takes short, daily practice in the exact place the problem happens, your home, and a plan you can follow when you’re on your own. This online course gives you that plan, the assessments to know where you are, and 12 months of access for the days training seems to go backwards.

Try the first lesson free, pay once, train at your own pace.