Tara Oberstehöhfeld
Know your ground. Live with stance.
Encouraging people - with or without dogs.
Bom dia from Portugal! Welcome to the conversation.
But why should you talk to me?
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 wh 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.
This is the most important starting point for communication for me. Sometimes dogs give me a sense of where the conversation needs to go.
I do not help the dog. I let the dog show me that I have worked with the person in the right way.
And my clients confirm this.
"I have been working with Tara on and off for a couple of years now with my two hounds. I feel for a while there was a block in me – I saw the brilliance of her approach and applied it, but then fell back into my normal habits – which meant no real change in me or the hounds. As I write this testimonial I recently completed a session with Tara where we walked my dogs together. At the start of the session I was tense, nervous and the dogs were in a similar state! Pretty much immediately I was confronted, and I must say gently, by Tara as to my perceptions about how to correct the dogs – but also it became so obvious that whereas my body seemed to know intuitively what to do, a doubting part of my mind hijacked these actions. This totally confused the dogs and was a perfect representation of the conflict in me. So after this was shown to me my whole demeanor changed – I would confidently correct the dogs when needed, wasn’t fearful about making a mistake – and also found myself not feeding or listening to the doubtful part in me. My dogs are a big feature in my family and my life so to be confident with them and a strong guide is super important – although I would admit I ignored this for some time. Tara’s ability to assist her clients in questioning their habits is rare and through the experiences with the dogs it is a super potent and transformational combination."
-Andy with Rupert and Izzy
