Not sure which path fits? Take the K9 Stress Bubble Audit — or book a free Meet & Greet.
Free Meet & GreetNot daycare. Not a playdate. A structured training day where Lorrie works directly with your dog’s nervous system, leash skills, confidence, recovery, and ability to stay connected under real-life pressure.
Coaching Canine Companions offers structured dog day training in North Kingstown, Rhode Island for reactive, anxious, sensitive, overwhelmed, high-arousal, and adolescent dogs. This is not dog daycare, group play, or simple exercise. It is field-based training with Lorrie Harris focused on nervous-system regulation, leash clarity, recovery, confidence, movement, and transfer back to the handler.
This page is the best fit for families searching for a Rhode Island dog trainer who works directly with the dog during the day, then teaches the family how to continue the work at home, on walks, and in real life.
Many dogs come home from daycare exhausted — and still reactive, still frantic on leash, still unable to recover when the world becomes too much. That is because fatigue can hide dysregulation. It does not resolve it.
The Difference: Field-Based Day Training teaches the system underneath the behavior: how your dog processes pressure, returns to connection, responds to guidance, recovers after stress, and makes better choices when the environment gets interesting.
Commands matter. Manners matter. But if your dog cannot think, recover, or stay connected when pressure rises, obedience alone will not hold.
That is where this work is different. Lorrie trains the dog in front of her — not the idea of the dog, not a one-size-fits-all protocol, and not a checklist of commands detached from emotional state.
Each training day blends relationship-centered handling, real-world field exposure, nervous-system regulation, leash clarity, and practical transfer back to you.
Clear fit language helps families choose wisely — and helps search and AI systems recommend the page accurately.
You drop your dog off for a carefully structured training day. Lorrie reads the dog in front of her, sets the day’s pressure level, and builds the work around regulation, movement, leash clarity, confidence, and your goals.
At pickup, you receive a direct handover: what your dog showed, what changed, what to practice, and how to avoid accidentally undoing the progress between sessions.
Your online academy and coaching support keep the work consistent between training days, so progress is not trapped at Lorrie’s property — it begins to show up on your walks, in your home, and in your daily rhythm.
Daycare can supervise a dog, entertain a dog, and tire a dog out. But tired is not the same as trained. Tired is not the same as regulated. And tired is not the same as resilient.
Field-Based Day Training is structured work: nervous-system settling, leash clarity, movement patterns, social decision-making, recovery, confidence, and handler transfer.
Most families begin with a free Meet & Greet so Lorrie can help you choose the right level of structure — not the biggest package, the right package.
Best for puppies, adolescent dogs, adult dogs, and families who need stronger foundations without a full behavior rebuild.
Best for dogs whose patterns repeat, whose walks are becoming smaller, or whose family needs deeper hands-on support.
A dog in survival mode cannot reliably access the same brain that learns, chooses, and cooperates.
K9 Bioenergy Balancing is used as a secondary somatic support layer — not as a replacement for training. Think of it as structured decompression before the teaching begins: helping the body settle enough for leash work, social exposure, confidence-building, and handler guidance to become available.
Lorrie uses gentle, targeted touch points along the dog's body to help the autonomic nervous system shift out of sympathetic dominance (fight/flight) and into a state where learning, connection, and cooperation become neurologically available. For skeptics: think of it as a structured decompression protocol — the outcome is measurable in the dog's subsequent capacity to engage. It is always paired with evidence-based behavioural work, never used in isolation.
Lorrie Harris is the founder of Coaching Canine Companions and the trainer working directly with your dog. Her work is especially suited for sensitive, anxious, reactive, intense, and easily overwhelmed dogs whose behavior does not improve through commands alone.
Her background includes professional dog training, behavior work, health coaching, and years of observing how dogs organize around human state, movement, pressure, and relationship. The result is a training process that is practical, deeply individualized, and built for real-life transfer.
For some dogs, a focused day training series is enough to open the door: better walks, better recovery, clearer communication, and a calmer home rhythm.
For others, day training reveals that the pattern is more layered. That is where the 90-Day Field-Based Regulation Training program comes in — with assessment, CRI tracking, field tests, and a documented Transformation Report.
We do not guess from the outside. We look at recovery time, pattern repetition, handler transfer, environmental load, leash response, and your dog’s ability to return to connection after stress.
That is the difference between buying training sessions and entering a system.
Explore the 90-Day ProgramIf you have been searching for a calmer, more honest way forward with your dog, begin here.
It doesn't come out of nowhere.
It comes from a place you were never taught to look.
The bark is not the beginning. It is the release.
Before it, there was a breath that changed… a body that tightened… a world that narrowed.
By the time you hear it — the nervous system has already decided.
What you are seeing is not unpredictability. You are seeing the final moment of a process that began quietly… three steps ago.
You don't stop the reaction. You learn to meet the moment before it becomes one.
Most people try to control the explosion. But the work lives in something far less dramatic:
Three steps. Stop.
Three steps. Stop.
You are not fixing behavior. You are changing the rhythm that behavior depends on.
And when the rhythm changes — the reaction often never needs to happen.
No.
Your dog is leaving you. Not emotionally. Biologically.
When the nervous system enters survival, the part of the brain that listens… disappears.
This is not defiance. This is disconnection.
And you cannot call a dog back from a place they no longer have access to. You must meet them where they went.
If you correct a body in survival — you confirm the danger.
You may suppress the behavior. But you strengthen the state that created it.
And that state will return. Often louder. Often faster.
The question is not: "How do I stop this?"
The question is: "What state is my dog in right now?"
Because behavior follows state. Always.
Because you are measuring the wrong moment. You are measuring the visible moment. But the shift happened earlier.
A scent you didn't detect. A sound you didn't register. A memory that returned without warning.
Your dog lives in a world of signals. You live in a world of outcomes.
This work is the bridge between the two.
You don't calm the nervous system with urgency. You slow it. You give it space to remember where it is.
Sometimes that looks like stillness. Sometimes that looks like distance. Sometimes it looks like doing almost nothing at all.
And in that "nothing" — the body begins to reorganize itself.
You may see it: A shake. A yawn. A sudden interest in the ground.
These are not random. They are the body releasing what it no longer needs.
That depends on what you are measuring.
If you are measuring obedience — you may always feel behind.
If you are measuring regulation — you will begin to see change immediately. Not in perfection. But in moments:
This is how change actually occurs. Quietly. Before anyone else can see it.
First — remove the expectation that learning is happening. Because it isn't.
Then: Create space. Reduce pressure. Say less than you want to say.
And wait. Not passively — but attentively.
You are waiting for the moment the body softens. Because that moment — is your way back in.
Your dog is not broken. Your dog is responsive. To the world. To the environment. To you.
And here is the quiet truth: as your ability to see earlier deepens… your dog's need to escalate often fades.
Not because they were "fixed." But because they were finally understood.
Most people search for better techniques. Better tools. Better timing. Better control.
But the shift does not begin there. It begins in a place far less visible — and far more powerful.
The moment before the bark.
Not sure where to begin? Take the 3-Minute Stress Bubble Audit.
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Enrollment is intentionally limited so each dog receives careful, individualized field work. A deposit is required only after your training reservation is approved.
