Certified Dog Trainers in Hadley, Massachusetts

At Your Service Dog Training offers expert service dog training for life-changing results. Our approach is individualized, effective, humane, and respectful. We tailor instructions based on your dog’s training level and history, personality and temperament, and physical and behavioral needs. We customize our approach for what works for your physical and emotional comfort and abilities. “Access” and “accommodation” are not buzzwords; they are woven into the fabric of everything we do. We combine decades of our own hands-on service-dog training expertise with up-to-the-minute learning from reward-based industry experts. Our training methods are kind, effective, and evidence-based. We will never advocate training that will damage your dog, physically or behaviorally, now or in the future. We work with people from all walks of life, with all disabilities and ages. We strive to be both honest and direct as well as kind and helpful. We welcome people of all races, colors, ethnicities, disabilities and abilities, neurodiversities, genders, sexual orientations, religions or belief systems, and locations on the political spectrum. Sharon Wachsler is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) and a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA-CTP) who has been in the disability field since 1992. She began training service dogs in 1998 and opened At Your Service Dog Training in 2014. Alex Wise (CPDT-KA) has been teaching group classes and private lessons since 2015 and also has personal service dog training experience. Eli MacCullagh (CPDT-KA) raised puppies for Fidelco Guide Dogs and ran a successful pet-sitting business, before becoming a professional dog trainer and taking charge of our board & train program. We offer online (Zoom) group and private service dog training throughout the United States. We provide puppy raising and service dog training board-and-train for those in New England and New York. For those in Western Mass., and the Boston area, we also offer private training, day training, and day school. We are a full-service training program, including...- help with finding the right dog (dog search support and consulting, assessments of dogs under consideration, owner education about service dog training and options)- puppy training- task training- behavior consulting for established service dog teams when training or behavior problems arise We also offer consulting on service dog training for p