1-to-1 Puppy Training for City Life
Force-free, practical training designed to help your puppy settle, listen, and feel confident in every new environment.
Course Summary
Raising a puppy in the city comes with its own challenges - busy streets, noisy neighbours, and constant new experiences. It can feel like a lot to manage, especially when you just want to get things right for your pup.
These 1-to-1 sessions give you personalised support to help your puppy feel calm and confident as they learn about the world. We’ll use gentle, reward-based methods to build trust and teach useful everyday skills like relaxed walking, settling in cafés, and feeling comfortable around people, traffic, and other dogs.
Each session is tailored to your puppy and your routine. You’ll get clear, practical guidance that fits real life, not strict obedience drills. My goal is to help you understand your puppy, make training feel manageable, and set you both up for a happy, stress-free life together.
What You’ll Learn
Every puppy is different, and your sessions are shaped around what matters most to you. Together, we’ll focus on the skills and confidence your puppy needs to feel safe and settled in busy city life. You’ll learn how to:
- Build calm focus and connection, even around distractions
- Teach everyday skills like loose lead walking and recall in real settings
- Help your puppy settle at home, in cafés, and on public transport
- Understand body language and what your puppy’s really communicating
- Handle challenges like nipping, jumping up, or overexcitement kindly and effectively
- Support your puppy through new or worrying experiences with confidence
- By the end, you’ll feel more in tune with your puppy and equipped to guide them through city life in a calm, positive way.
- Build calm focus and connection, even around distractions
- Teach everyday skills like loose lead walking and recall in real settings
- Help your puppy settle at home, in cafés, and on public transport
- Understand body language and what your puppy’s really communicating
- Handle challenges like nipping, jumping up, or overexcitement kindly and effectively
- Support your puppy through new or worrying experiences with confidence
- By the end, you’ll feel more in tune with your puppy and equipped to guide them through city life in a calm, positive way.
Freya Coakley
Hi, I’m Freya Coakley, a dog trainer based in East London, and my journey into this work started with Gracey – my anxious Romanian rescue. Living on the sixth floor of a flat with no garden, I quickly realised how hard city life could be for dogs like her. I couldn’t find the support we needed, so I decided to become the trainer I’d been searching for.
Now, I help other dog owners navigate the same challenges I faced – whether that’s reactivity, fear, lead pulling, or just figuring out how to get your dog to settle in the pub. I specialise in city dog training that’s practical, compassionate, and designed around real life.
