Where Tradition Meets Science
The Lab – Publications
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.
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
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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


Book
Relational Neuroethology - Understanding the Dog Beyond Behavior
Behavior is not an explanation.
Relational Neuroethology looks beyond visible behavior without
replacing behaviorism with sentimental interpretation.
Drawing on neuroscience, developmental and attachment theory,
clinical psychology, and decades of practical work with difficult
and distressed dogs, this book challenges a familiar question:
How do we stop this behavior?
And replaces it with another:
What makes this behavior necessary – and what must
change so the dog no longer needs it?
Fear, aggression, compulsion, dependency, learned helplessness,
shutdown, trauma, and other forms of distress are examined not
as isolated behavioral problems, but as possible expressions of a
larger biological and relational organization.
This is not a training manual.
It is a clinical framework for understanding the dog as he
actually exists.
Book
They Killed The Bark
The Business Of Mercy
Behind the scenes of “Saved” and “They found a hone”. How to invoice compassion and what the slogans hide.

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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.





