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Barbara with Legend, Dragon & Phantom at Camp Gone to the Dogs. Photo by owner Victoria Vidal-Ribas

Barbara Janelle is a Recognized TTACT (Tellington Touch Animal Companion Training) and TTEAM (Tellington-Jones Equine Awareness Method) Practitioner with 22 years experience.

Barbara is on the staff of Camp Gone to the Dogs and has taught at this world-renowned canine camp for over a dozen years. She presented Tellington TTouch workshops at the 1998 and 2000 annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Professional Pet Dog Trainers (CAPPDT). She was the only non-veterinarian speaker at a major holistic health conference for animals in Ontario Canada in 2000. Barbara travels extensively giving workshops in the USA and Canada. In 2002, she gave a workshop at the Pawsitive K9 Camp for Therapy Dogs in Malibu, CA

Barbara is also a Recognized (USA & Canada) Teacher and Practitioner of Therapeutic Touch (Krieger/Kunz), and a leading expert in North American on the use of TT with animals. She writes a regular column for In Touch, The Journal of the Therapeutic Touch Networks of Canada. A ten-year collection of her work was published in Our Healing Power in 1999. For many years, she taught Therapeutic Touch at the University of Western Ontario, and presented TT workshops in UWO’s Multi-Disciplinary Palliative Care Institute. She also trained the nursing and palliative care staffs at a regional hospital in Ontario. Barbara gives courses on Therapeutic Touch for Animals for veterinarians and animal owners.

Interspecies Communication is another of Barbara’s skills. She is listed in Penelope Smith’s Species Link, and her articles on communication are published frequently in that journal. A section on her work appears in Communicating With Animals by Arthur Myers (Contemporary Books, 1997).

Barbara says, "I love working with animals and their humans. The tremendous breakthroughs in understanding and heart-to-heart connection between dogs and humans that comes with Tellington Touch, Therapeutic Touch and Communication make my work very exciting. Humans learn effective ways of teaching their dogs and helping to maintain their good health, and dogs take great delight in the deepening relationship with their people."

In 2000, she moved from London, Ontario Canada, where she had lived for 31 years, to Santa Barbara, California. There, Barbara works with dogs, cats, horses and many other species, addressing behavior, health and performance issues.