Jasmin Barron-Harris
BSc (Hons)
Hi, I’m Jazz. If your dog’s doing something that scares you, embarrasses you, or just leaves you not knowing what to do next, I get it, and I promise it’s more common than it feels right now. My job is to figure out why it’s happening and give you a clear, realistic and lasting way through it.
I’ve been around dogs pretty much my whole life. I trialled my first gundog at 8 years old, standing next to my grandad, who was a dog trainer himself, so this was never really a career change for me, more a straight line. That line took me into ten years as a Dog Trainer in the British Army, including developing the army’s first dual-role dogs and several deployments overseas. When you’re working dogs in environments where a mistake really matters, you learn fast to read what’s really going on rather than guess, and that’s the habit I’ve carried into every session I run now.
I’ve kept building on that ever since. I hold a BSc (Hons) in Canine Behaviour Management and an FdSc in Canine Behaviour and Training, and I’m recognised as a Master Professional Dog Training Instructor by the Guild of Dog Trainers, which means a lot to me, it’s as much about giving back to the industry as it is about my own ability. Alongside that I’m a Canine Nutritionist, a Certified Scentwork Instructor and Judge, a Qualified Service Decoy, and a Canine First Aid Instructor, and I hold roles as a NASDU Trainer, BIPDT Assessor, and NSCTO Trainer.
I know that’s a lot of letters. What it actually means for you is that whether your dog is an anxious rescue, a working dog, a sport dog, or your loveable pet dog who’s started doing something you don’t understand, I’ve got a genuinely wide toolkit to draw from, and I use it deliberately rather than running the same programme for every dog through the door. I’ve also personally fostered and rehabilitated rescue dogs with a whole range of behavioural problems myself, so when I say I understand how overwhelming this can feel, it’s not just professional distance talking. What I care about most is that you understand your dog better by the time we’re done, and that what we build together still works when I’m not standing next to you.
I still put all of this to the test myself. I compete at the highest level in the international protection sport Global Ring with my own dog, Venom. We represented the UK at the 2024 World Championship. That’s not something I do separately from my training work, it’s where I prove it. Training under real pressure, with everything on the line, keeps me honest about what actually works.
Nadia Jouni
BSc (Hons) MSc C.ErgHF MCIEHF
Hi, I’m Nadia. Most of the owners I work with tell me the same thing when we first speak: “I’ve tried everything.” I believe them, and I also know that means nobody’s yet worked out why the behaviour is happening in the first place. That’s where I start.
My background isn’t originally in dogs at all, it’s in people. I hold a Master’s degree in Psychology and spent over ten years applying behavioural science professionally, including in safety-critical industries, where getting the analysis wrong genuinely has consequences. I’m Chartered in my field, which isn’t something many dog trainers can say, and it’s shaped how I think about every case I take on.
What that means in practice is that I don’t see dog training and behaviour as separate from psychology, to me they’re the same discipline, just applied to a different relationship. I’m as interested in what’s going on for you as the owner as I am in what’s going on for your dog, because the two are never really separate. My approach is to work out what’s actually driving the behaviour first, then build a plan that gets you and your dog working with each other instead of against the problem.
I’m a certified NASDU Trainer and a qualified Scentwork Judge, and I’m currently completing my formal qualification as a Canine Behaviourist, because this is a field I never want to stop getting better at.
Rescue dogs are close to my heart, both professionally and at home. I’ve volunteered for a rescue charity, fostering and rehabilitating dogs with a real range of behavioural problems, so when a dog arrives with baggage, that’s genuinely familiar territory, not something I’m reading about for the first time. Away from work, I compete seriously myself, in the demanding sport of PSA with my rescue dog, Rex, and I’m currently preparing to step up into IGP with my German Shepherd, Jester. Rex came to me as a rescue, not a blank slate, so a lot of what I understand about real behavioural challenges, I’ve lived through myself, at home, with my own dog. That’s not theory to me. It’s personal.
How we work together
We trained separately long before we trained together, and that’s deliberate. One of us is grounded in the operational side, years spent reading dogs under real pressure, in working and sporting environments where a missed signal actually mattered. The other is grounded in the psychological side, understanding why behaviour happens in the first place, and how people and dogs influence each other without either of them realising it. Most trainers lean one way or the other. We don’t have to choose, because between us, we’ve got both covered.
In practice, that means we look at every case from two angles at once, the practical and the psychological, rather than handing you a single template and hoping it fits. If a plan needs adjusting because of how your dog is built to work, one of us will spot it. If it needs adjusting because of what’s happening in the relationship between you and your dog, the other will. Between the two of us, very little gets missed.
We also both know what it’s like to bring a difficult dog home, not just train someone else’s. We’ve each fostered and rehabilitated rescue dogs with real behavioural problems, separately, in our own time, long before it was ever part of the job. That’s part of why we don’t offer you quick fixes or one-size-fits-all advice. We know from our own dogs, as much as from our clients’, that lasting change takes an honest look at what’s actually going on, and a plan built around your dog specifically, not a generic one.