Where Tradition Meets Science
The Lab
Research. Philosophy. Memory.
TAO is more than clinical practice. It’s a lineage.
We remember what most have forgotten: That there was a time before domestication became domination. Before relationship became obedience. Before we taught animals to perform and called it love.
This section houses the work that can’t be reduced to treatment plans.
History was written by the species with thumbs.
Written Memory
Knowledge without warmth becomes doctrine.
Step closer.
Remember who you were before the leash.
Applied Kinship
Healing begins in the smallest gestures –
a breath aligned, a boundary respected,
a silence shared.
Online Course
The Trauma-Informed Dog Guardian
This course isn’t about fixing broken dogs. It’s about seeing the whole picture. Your dog’s behavior? Not random. Not wrong. It’s a message from a nervous system still bracing for storms. That first pawstep is yours too. Not just theirs.
Online Course
Unmeditated: A Guide for the Meditation-Averse Animal Family
Discover a refreshing approach to mental well-being tailored for inter-species families – those with dogs, pets, horses, and more. This course challenges the pressure of mindfulness, offering practical strategies to navigate stress, embrace imperfection, and find peace authentically.
Hybrid Course
Relational Neuroethology
Dogs don’t need obedience.
They need someone who actually sees the trauma.
Transform Your Understanding of Canine Mental Health
Relational Neuroethology recognizes that dogs are sentient beings with complex inner lives -capable of trauma, dissociation, and psychological suffering that no amount of “training” can address. This program equips you to meet dogs where conventional approaches fail: in their psychological reality.
Become a canine psychiatrist. Understand not just what dogs do, but who they are.
Every word here was written by something that once listened.
Publications
Therapy isn’t about fixing dogs.
It’s about convincing humans they’re not broken for caring
Book
Safe Enough to Be Seen: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Living With Dogs
Safe Enough to Be Seen is not a training manual.
It’s a guide to understanding trauma – what it is, how it shows up in dogs, and how we, as their companions, can create a life rooted in safety, not control.
Combining neuroscience, real-world stories, and a trauma-informed approach to daily living, this book offers insight without overwhelm. It’s for dog parents, animal professionals, and anyone who’s ever whispered “I just want them to feel okay.”
Find the Paperback here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FM7TD5XM
Book
This is your Brain on Squirrels: A survival manual for sentient creatures with fur, flaws, and frequent distractions
This Is Your Brain On Squirrels is your unauthorized survival guide to a universe run by the furriest minds around.
This Is Your Brain On Squirrels is your unauthorized survival guide to a universe run by the furriest minds around. Penned (or pawed) by Bark Twain – a sarcastic therapy dog with a PhD in nonsense and a nose for truth – this book unearths the hilarious, heartfelt, and occasionally howlingly inappropriate thoughts of creatures who’ve had it with human logic.
Find the Paperback here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FL7DQWT5
Welcome to the Lab.
Please keep your ego in the specimen jar provided.
Please keep your ego in the specimen jar provided.
Research & Collaboration
We partner with:
– Veterinary psychiatrists
– Trauma researchers
– Consciousness studies programs
– Somatic practitioners
– Anyone doing real work in the
intersection of mind, body,
and interspecies relationship
If you’re working at this edge, let’s talk.
