Diane Garrod is a PCT-A (professional canine trainer – accredited), with a degree in Communication and Journalism from University of Wisconsin. Garrod is a Founding Member of the Pet Professionals Guild: the association of force free pet professionals (PPG). She is Owner of Canine Transformations Learning, Langley, Washington (celebrating 17 years, January 2021), awarded 2016 and 2017 Best Business category Dog Trainer by Langley, WA Awards Committee. Garrod has skills certifications in resource guarding, animal behavior, theriogenology, writing for the sciences, fear in dogs and cognition and emotion. Most recent certifications are in predation and aggression, 2017; and Aggression in Dogs: Safety, Defensive Handling, and Training 2017, as well as Fear Free Certification, through VetFolio by Marty Becker, DVM (fear free veterinarian practices) 2017. She is also a Guild Certified Tellington Touch Practitioner since 2011. Garrod's main areas of research include stress in dogs and is the creator Stress Release; the Canine Emotional Detox: Systematic stress release protocol for challenging canines. She is an international speaker on this topic and on solving the aggression and behavior puzzle, force free. Garrod is a regular contributor to PPG's Barks from the Guild Magazine having cover articles in: Dodging Euthanasia with Force Free techniques, a story about her own rehomed adoptee, Skye http://www.petprofessionalguild.com/event-2326495 Sept 2016, and 2017 Cover Article Multi-Dog Households Fighting protocol, a how-to in working through issues in a multi-dog household fighting situation. Garrod has a DVD feature, 2015 www.tawzerdog.com on The Canine Emotional Detox: Systematic Stress Release Protocol for Challenging Canines. Garrod instructed a class, five sessions in length on Dogs Who Guard Resources, from guarding to sharing, March 17 to May 12, 2021 at Grisha Stewart's School online. Working teacher dog Belgian Tervuren Valor, my partner in helping dogs and their owners transforming problems into positive solutions; RIP Belgian Tervuren, Chancellor April 3, 2004 to January 2015, the inspiration for Stress Release, For Dogs: The Canine Emotional Detox (CED). New dog: Skye, mini-australian shepherd male. email to: garrod@whidbey.com or info@caninetlc.com Website: www.caninetlc.com FB biz site: www.facebook.com/cTLC3