Janet first came across TTouch in 1997 through reading Linda Tellington Jones' book, and was drawn to the gentle respect with which it worked with animals, which was in stark contrast with many training methods both then and now. So when she decided several years later to take an animal behaviour training course, it was the TTouch Companion Animal Practitioner training that most appealed.
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She qualified as a TTouch Practitioner Level 1 in 2006, after 3 years of training with top TTouch instructors, including founder Linda Tellington-Jones, her sister Robyn Hood, and top UK trainer Sarah Fisher. She received her Practitioner Level 2 certification in June 2009. She is also a member of the UK Association of Pet Dog Trainers (MAPDT 01046).

She has lived with dogs all her life, having had Maremma Sheepdogs for many years and more recently, a Smooth Collie and a Lurcher. She has been involved in running breed, pet obedience, agility and ring craft training clubs since 1990. She has been a trainer at the Tailwagger Club in Leeds/Harrogate and Well Connected Canine in York and has worked on a one-to-one basis with a wide range of dogs and other pets. She finds TTouch to be a very effective way of working with animals and highly compatible with reward based training and approaches such as clicker.

She has seen the benefits of TTouch with the animals she has worked with and with her own dogs, including her last Maremma Sheepdog who, for most of her life, was very reactive to strangers and afraid of being handled, but with the help of TTouch gained her Silver Kennel Club Good Citizen award, which involves being handled by a stranger, and went on to win BIS at a club show from the Veteran class.

Janet is an experienced teacher and a qualified coach (ILM Level 5) and has taught in higher education since 1991.