Online Dog Trainer Courses
Professional
Dog Trainer Education
for Every Step
of Your Journey
Learn. Grow. Make a Difference.
Flexible, science-led education, real-world skills, prestigious certification, specialized learning, and on-demand webinars to help you build a successful career with dogs.
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4.9/5 from 2,500+ students
“The premier choice for serious dog training professionals.”
OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAM
The most comprehensive path to becoming an elite certified professional dog trainer.
The Dog Trainer Course
Build the skills. Gain real experience.
Develop a career that changes lives.
Designed for aspiring trainers, pet professionals, and those looking to add training to their existing business. Learn from Victoria Stilwell and industry experts, build real-world skills, and earn a prestigious certification upon successful completion.
Comprehensive learner-centered, performance-based curriculum
Learn from Victoria Stilwell and industry experts
Flexible, self-paced, online learning from home
Earn globally-recognized prestigious certification
Meet regularly with a dedicated professional mentor
Ongoing support and community with graduates and faculty
CONTINUE YOUR PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY
Explore our specialized courses designed to help you build skills, deepen your expertise, and make an even greater impact for dogs.
Build Your Dog Behavior Foundation
Strengthen your understanding of dog behavior and training
Fundamentals of Dog Training & Behavior
A comprehensive introduction to modern, science-led positive training methods and concepts, providing a powerful roadmap to helping clients and dogs live their best lives together.
Building Your Dog's Confidence
Explore how confidence shapes your dog’s behavior, discover how to measure your dog’s confidence level, and find new ways to help build your dog’s confidence.
Advance Your Dog Training Skills
Deepen your expertise with in-depth, professional training
Reactivity for Professionals
Use the Reactivity Zones Approach™ to expand your professional toolkit, supercharge your practice, and better empower clients struggling with traditional approaches to reactivity.
Reactivity Master Course
During a live, 6-week online course with a small group of pro trainers, you’ll practice, receive feedback, compare approaches, and build the confidence to handle more challenging reactivity cases.
Specialized Pet Professional Training
Targeted courses for specific professional communities
Shelter Zones Approach
A practical framework for understanding how dogs experience their environment — and for making every day in shelters and rescues safer, more humane, and more sustainable for both dogs and people.
A NOTE FOR DOG GUARDIANS
Looking for training resources for your own dog?
You’re in the right neighborhood — just a different part of our family!
Our sister site, Positively.com, offers a wide range of free and low-cost online courses and resources to help you have the life you and your dog have always wanted.
CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR PET PROS
Live and on-demand dog training and behavior-focused learning opportunities for pet professional development, skill-building, and continuing education credit.
Professional Dog Training Webinars
Expert-Led Webinars
CEU Credit Opportunities
Learn on Your Schedule
Affordable & Focused
LIVE & ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
Empowering Fearful Dogs
With Victoria Stilwell
Discover how to utilize effective strategies from the Zones Approach™ to build a practical roadmap and expand fearful dogs’ repertoire of functional — yet joyful — life skills.
$29
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
Beyond Tolerance: Uncovering the Hidden Pathways to Building Resilience in Dogs
With Victoria Stilwell
Learn to use the Zones Approach™ and discover lesser known pathways that move dogs from merely coping with stressful situations to truly thriving.
$29
ANNUAL ONLINE EVENT
The 2027 Dog Behavior Conference
12 Industry Thought Leaders
Expand your knowledge, re-charge your passion, connect with like-minded dog people, learn how science impacts real-world training, and renew your dedication and inspiration to helping provide the best possible life for dogs and the people who love them.
$159
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
Rethinking Reactivity
With Victoria Stilwell
Discover the Reactivity Zones Approach™ – a powerful alternative to traditional reactive dog training methods.
$29
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
BRAVE: Coping Strategies for Every Dog
With Victoria Stilwell
Discover how each element of BRAVE reinforces the bond you have with your dog and gain a clearer understanding of what the dogs you work with need to be successful.
$29
