UNLEASHED (at work & home) with Colleen Pelar Podcast
1) 157. Tara Moser, LCSW, RPT-S, CAAIS
The benefits of play therapy and animal-assisted therapy are both well established. Engaging in play and spending time with or learning to care for animals can be valuable interventions for children a...Show More
2) 156. Ann Howie, ACSW, CCA, CCFT
Psychotherapist and dog professional Ann Howie built her professional life around doing animal-assisted therapy with her own dogs. Then for years, none of her dogs wanted to do that work. She had to a...Show More
3) 155. Ellen Yoakum, KPA-CTP, SAPBC
My guest today always thought she’d be a teacher when she grew up- and in a way she is, but not how she thought! Instead of teaching children, Ellen Yoakum trains dogs and mentors dog trainers in her ...Show More
4) 154. Melissa Trevathan-Minnis, PhD
Dr. Melissa Trevatan-Minnis is not a pet professional, at least not in the way we traditionally think of them. However, as both a psychologist and a shelter volunteer, she’s familiar with the burnout ...Show More
5) 153. Francine Coughlin, CDBC, CPDT-KA
"Don't give up." It's advice we hear all the time, seemingly from everybody, about everything. We hear it so often that it can cease to have any real meaning, and become just a kind of feel-good motiv...Show More
6) 152. Heide Maglott
We often hear that life is short, but dog trainer Heide Maglott knows from personal experience just how true that is, and just how quickly things can get turned upside down. After losing both her husb...Show More
7) 151. Jeni Grant, CPDT-KA
“It’s not about you!” So often, we hear those words used as a rebuke or as something said sharply to snap us out of a fit of self-centeredness. Certainly, most of us don’t necessarily like being remi...Show More
8) 150. Kim Palermo, CPDT-KA, CCUI, ACE
Kim Palermo is a bit of an anomaly among the guests on this show—someone who is actually doing today what she hoped she would be doing when she was ten (more or less, anyway)! Almost twenty years ago,...Show More
9) 149. Moani Makaiwi
Empathy is a common trait among those of us who work with animals—one could even argue that sometimes we have too much of it. My guest today knows full well the importance of empathy, as well as the e...Show More
10) 148. Bob Deeds, CSS
We’ve all heard and read about search and rescue dogs. Most of us doubtless have an image in our mind of intrepid canines locating people lost in the woods or rescuing individuals trapped under piles ...Show More