Where relationships grow
Olá from Portugal!
What my clients take from the sessions is mostly one thing:
the experience of getting to know themselves better.
They gain clarity about their thoughts, feelings and patterns, and explore their personality.
People come to me who doubt themselves, who cannot find inner stability, or have an attitude directed against themselves.
Interestingly, you can often see the effects of such behavior in the dog.
This is why dogs can sometimes help me to bring people back to themselves.
Our dogs often know us better than we know ourselves because they observe us.
Sometimes they give me a sense of where the conversation needs to go.
I don’t help the dog directly. The dog itself demonstrates that I have worked with the person in the right way. And my clients confirm this.
Ani with Alva
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Tara didn’t just help me communicate better with my dog, but also with the people around me. I would never have thought that working with her would bring so much change and hope into my life.
My dog used to attack everything that moved. With Tara’s help, I was able to recognize the underlying root conflicts behind this behavior.
This not only improved my connection with my dog, but also with the people around me.
I am incredibly grateful to you, Tara, for doing what you love and for being your true self. I can feel in everything you do that you are fully devoted with all your heart.
How do we shape relationships?
The answer to this question shapes the quality of our relationships with dogs, with people, and with our lives.
My approach moves away from the classical idea of dog training. It questions the common way of thinking about dogs, behaviour, and training, and shifts the focus to what lies underneath: relationship and communication.
The more we try to shape relationship and communication through methods, strategies, and control, the further we move away from what it is actually about: expressing ourselves.
That is why communication is at the centre of my work.
Communication makes visible how we perceive ourselves and the other, how we enter into relationships, and how we respond to life. It shows which experiences, values, and patterns shape our behaviour and why certain conflicts keep repeating. This is exactly what dogs respond to. Their behavior makes existing communication and relationship dynamics visible.