90-Day Field Immersion · North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Your Dog Isn't Ignoring You.
They're Overwhelmed.
A 90-day reactive and anxious dog training program where Lorrie trains your dog in the field, transfers the work back to you, and documents the change with the Canine Resilience Index.
Lorrie Trains Your Dog
You drop off your dog. Lorrie works in structured sessions across the day — reading pressure, recovery, leash state, and emotional availability.
Then Lorrie Trains You
At pickup, the work transfers. You learn what your dog showed, what shifted, and what to do differently on the very next walk.
Structured Over 90 Days
Month 1 builds the baseline. Month 2 changes the pattern. Month 3 helps the change hold in real life.
Measured, Not Guessed
Progress is tracked through Day 0, Day 45, and Day 90 field tests and the Canine Resilience Index.
Why Most "Progress" Is a Guess
Memory is not an archive.
It's a story you retell.
When you love your dog, you want the training to be working — so your memory quietly edits the hard walks and inflates the good ones. That's not dishonesty. It's neurology. And it makes "I think he's better" almost impossible to trust.
Most programs ask
"How do you feel your dog is doing?"
This program asks
"How many times this week? How long was recovery? What does the footage show?"
Feelings confirm. Data proves.
A Lesson, Free — Before You Decide Anything
Before there's behavior, there's a state.
Here's the single idea the whole program turns on. A dog can know a cue and still be unable to reach it — because their nervous system has already shifted out of the only state where learning is possible. Most training works on the bark. This works on the state underneath it. Learn to read these three, and walks start to make sense.
Ventral · "I'm safe"
Connected & Curious
Soft body, loose leash, able to sniff, check in, and take a cue. This is the only state where real learning happens.
Sympathetic · "Threat"
Alert & Bracing
Scanning, stiffening, pulling, barking, lunging. The body is mobilizing. Cues stop landing — there's no room for them.
Dorsal · "Shut down"
Checked Out
Still and "calm" — but not peace. The dog has gone offline to cope. Often mistaken for a dog who "finally settled."
Try this on your next walk: before you do anything, just name the state out loud — "connected," "bracing," or "checked out." You don't have to fix it. Naming it is where everything starts to change. That's the work of Month 1.
Search & AI Overview
90-day reactive dog training in Rhode Island, built around regulation before behavior.
Coaching Canine Companions offers a 90-Day Field-Based Regulation Training program in North Kingstown, Rhode Island for reactive, anxious, sensitive, overwhelmed, and high-arousal dogs. This is structured day-training and handler-transfer work. It is not dog daycare, not a basic obedience class, and not command-only training.
It's designed for dogs whose behavior changes under pressure: barking, lunging, freezing, scanning, pulling, slow recovery, environmental overwhelm, or leash reactivity. Lorrie works directly with the dog, then teaches the handler how to preserve the change.
Best fit for
- Reactive dogs who struggle on walks
- Anxious or sensitive dogs with slow recovery
- Dogs who need structured day training, not daycare
- Families who want measurable progress
- People who'd like help training their own service dog
- Handlers who want the full arc self-directed, without in-person day training
- Handlers ready to change what happens before the behavior
May need a different first step
- Dogs needing immediate bite-risk safety planning
- Families looking only for basic obedience
- People who want fast suppression without handler change
- Cases where a CRI Full Assessment Day would clarify the path
- Dogs whose case may first need a veterinary behavior consult
Start Here · 60 Seconds
What Kind of Handler Are You Under Pressure?
Your dog reads your nervous system before they read the world. When a trigger appears, you fall into one of three patterns. This isn't a flaw — it's the most useful thing you can learn about yourself. Six quick questions.
The Reframe
The problem may not be behavior. It may be recovery.
A dog can know a cue and still be unable to access it — not because they're stubborn, but because the nervous system has already closed the door. Most training works on the behavior. This program works on the state that creates it.
Skills disappear under pressure
Obedience learned in calm conditions can fall apart the moment the environment gets loud, close, or unpredictable.
Handlers react too late
Most people intervene after the visible behavior. Field work begins earlier — at the state shift before the bark or lunge.
Progress gets guessed
The Canine Resilience Index gives you a structured way to compare real change over time, instead of relying on memory.
"Your dog is not giving you a hard time. They're showing you the moment their nervous system runs out of room."— Lorrie Harris
The 90-Day Arc
See. Shift. Hold.
Each month has a job — and each maps to one Field Book of the Trilogy. We start by changing how your dog is read, then how patterns are interrupted, then how those changes are sustained over time.
Month 1 · Field Notes (Book One)
SEE
- State mapping and trigger patterns
- Day 0 field-test baseline
- First pattern interrupt
Month 2 · Field Guide (Book Two)
SHIFT
- The leash as language
- Regulation before response
- Day 45 field test
Month 3 · Field State (Book Three)
HOLD
- Becoming the environment
- Final CRI score
- 90-Day Transformation Report and next plan
Inside the Vault · Included in the 90-Day Program
Field Lessons from the Canine Mind: the Trilogy
The same framework Lorrie uses with your dog, in your hands permanently. Three Field Books move in sequence, and 26 pocket-sized Walk Cards turn each idea into something you can run on a real walk. It lives in your private learning portal and never expires.
Field Notes · Book One · Seeing
Reading the Dog & the Handler You Are
Maps to Month 1 — SEE
26 entries across five Parts. The three autonomic states, the hidden drivers behind "out of nowhere" reactions (smell → sound → movement), and the handler patterns you bring to the leash without knowing it.
Field Guide · Book Two · Moving
The Leash as a Language
Maps to Month 2 — SHIFT
26 entries — and the source of your 26 Walk Cards. The leash as a nervous-system wire, not a control tool, and the intervention window: the few seconds between signal and reaction where everything still can change.
Field State · Book Three · Being
Becoming the Environment
Maps to Month 3 — HOLD
26 chapters following the 5-Layer Walk. Presence as training. You stop managing behavior and become the calm your dog organizes around — then watch it hold across ordinary, real-life walks.
The 26 Walk Cards
Five sets, carried in your pocket on every walk. Short enough for the parking lot, not the desk.
Cards 1–5
The Moment You Step In
Regulate before the leash is even clipped.
Cards 6–10
Speaking Through the Body
What your posture and breath are already saying.
Cards 11–15
Answering the Invisible
Working with scent and the senses driving the dog.
Cards 16–20
Becoming the Environment
Holding the state your dog can settle inside of.
Cards 21–26
Where Control Falls Away
What stays when you stop forcing the walk.
What's Included
Everything is designed to make growth visible.
The 90-Day program wraps the Trilogy inside live coaching and a full measurement system. Here's everything you receive and generate across the arc.
Pre-Cohort Orientation Call
A 60-minute call before Day 1 — every track. Lorrie primes the vocabulary, teaches the State Scan live, and walks you through the Day Zero Baseline.
Field Lessons Trilogy
Three Field Books that teach the exact framework Lorrie uses with your dog.
26 Walk Cards
Portable field prompts so the work continues on every walk between sessions.
Day Zero Baseline
An uncontaminated "before" — captured in your own words before any coaching begins.
3 Standardized Field Tests
The same filmed route at Day 0, 45, and 90 — so comparison is honest and undeniable on screen.
Video Assessments
Lorrie reviews your footage and names what your eye missed — within 72 hours of each test.
Weekly Field Logs
Real-time data on frequency and recovery that memory can't distort later.
Handler State Snapshots
Three check-ins that track your regulation arc — often the most surprising change of all.
90-Day Transformation Report
A permanent, client-owned record of what changed from Day 0 to Day 90 — yours to keep.
Canine Resilience Index
A single 0–100 score built from five weighted measures, tracked across all three checkpoints.
The Proof System
The Canine Resilience Index
The CRI isn't a grade or a promise. It's a documented position in time — measured at Day 0, Day 45, and Day 90 — so you can see what's changing instead of relying on memory or emotion. Five weighted measures combine into one comparable score.
Reactive Incident Frequency
Recovery Time Speed
Field Test Behavioral Score
Handler Regulation Self-Score
Belief-Language Shift
90-Day Transformation Report
What you actually receive at Day 90
An illustrative sample. Your real report is built from your own words, numbers, and footage.
The Language Audit · Before & After
Day 0 — your words then
"Reactive. Embarrassing. I dread walks. I don't think he'll ever be normal."
Day 90 — your words now
"Sensitive, not bad. I can see it building now — and we move through it together."
Sample figures shown for illustration. The language shift is often the most surprising data point in the entire report.
Optional · Most In-Depth Starting Point
The most complete picture of your dog you'll ever see.
The CRI Full Assessment Day is a formal three-phase evaluation that gives Lorrie an entire day with your dog — structured field sessions, K9 Bioenergy Balancing, real-world observation, a Day 0 CRI score, and a written Session Report.
- For layered or confusing reactivity patterns
- For families who've tried other trainers without durable change
- For dogs who behave differently at home than in public
- For people who want certainty before a 90-day commitment
CRI Full Assessment Day
- Driveway Assessment
- Two structured field sessions
- Autonomic state and leash baseline
- Co-training pickup and handler teaching
- Written Session Report
- Clear program recommendation
What Happens That Day
The Three-Phase Assessment Protocol
Phase 1
The Driveway Assessment
Lorrie reads how your dog exits, your first leash moments, your posture, your grip, and the language you use to describe your dog.
Phase 2
Dog Day Assessment
Structured field sessions identify autonomic state, recovery capacity, leash response, and the dominant patterns driving behavior.
Phase 3
Co-Training Pickup
You see your dog before they see you, then receive direct handler teaching and a clearer plan for what comes next.
Which Is Right For Your Dog?
Three ways in. One methodology.
All three use Field-Based Regulation Training. The tracks aren't "good, better, best" — they're built for different kinds of learners. The right one depends on how much hands-on work your dog needs and how you learn best.
Standard Track
Everything in the Hybrid track except the in-person day-training days — for self-directed handlers who want the full framework, coaching, and field testing while doing the field work on their own.
$597
Everything in Hybrid, minus the day training
- 3 monthly Zoom sessions — group Walk-Card coaching
- Full Trilogy, 26 Walk Cards & weekly logs
- Day 0 / 45 / 90 field tests + written video assessments
- CRI score + Transformation Report · handler-led (no day training)
Hybrid Track
For local handlers who want hands-on field days plus the structure of group coaching on the same arc.
$1,797
Early Bird $1,497
- 3 Day Training days + 3 monthly Zoom sessions
- In-field coaching + written Field Notes at each pickup
- Day 0 / 45 / 90 field tests + video assessments
- CRI score + Transformation Report
Day Training Upgrade
For dogs needing intensive reps, and handlers who learn best doing it live, alongside Lorrie.
$3,497
Early Bird $3,197
- 6 Day Training days + 6 Zoom sessions (about weekly)
- Real-time in-field coaching + Field Notes at every pickup
- Day 0 / 45 / 90 field tests + video assessments
- CRI score + Transformation Report
All three tracks produce the same 90-Day Transformation Report and Canine Resilience Index score, and every track begins with a 60-minute Pre-Cohort Orientation Call. A $400 non-refundable deposit secures a confirmed reservation once enrollment is approved. Because progress is measured at Day 45, you'll see early whether the track fits — and Lorrie will adjust the plan if it doesn't. Looking for à la carte day training without the 90-day arc? See Local Dog Day Training.
What Dog Families Say
Rated 5.0 by the people who walked it with us.
She used to react out of nowhere. Now I can see it building — and she moves through it with me.
I was afraid to walk my own dog. Now I look forward to our walks. I trust him — and myself.
A completely different approach — all about calming the nervous system and play. She helped me connect with my rescue on a deeper level.
We couldn't walk our dogs without pulling. Now they're a treat to walk — recall's better, anxiety's lower. 100% worth it.
See It In Action
What Field-Based Regulation Training looks like.
Before you decide, watch how Lorrie works: the timing, the body language, and the moment before the reaction.
Who You'll Be Working With
Lorrie Harris
A U.S. Navy veteran who has worked with dogs since 1990, Lorrie is the founder of Coaching Canine Companions and the creator of Field-Based Regulation Training and the Canine Resilience Index. She works with the dogs most programs find "too much" — the reactive, the anxious, the shut-down — by starting with the nervous system underneath the behavior, not the behavior itself.
Her 2019 Master Dog Training Certification didn't create the trainer — it confirmed one already shaped by decades of real-field work, from bomb-detection dogs to anxious rescues to handlers at the end of their rope. Her focus isn't compliance. It's connection that holds under pressure.
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Common Questions
Questions people ask before choosing the 90-Day Program.
Is this dog daycare?
No. This is structured day training and handler-transfer work. Your dog is trained, observed, and supported through regulated field work. It is not passive daycare.
Who is this best for?
Reactive, anxious, sensitive, high-arousal, or overwhelmed dogs whose behavior changes under real-life pressure — and families who need more structure than a single session or online course.
What if my dog doesn't make progress?
This is exactly why everything is measured. Because progress is documented at Day 0, Day 45, and Day 90, a plateau shows up at the halfway mark — not as a disappointment at the end. If the data says a track isn't fitting, Lorrie adjusts the plan or recommends a different path while there's still time to act, rather than hoping it works out.
Is the "nervous system" approach actually science?
It's a working lens, applied honestly. The program draws on ideas from polyvagal theory and stress-and-recovery research to explain why a dog can "know" a cue and still be unable to use it under pressure. Some parts of that theory are still debated among researchers, so we don't sell it as settled neuroscience — we use it because, in the field, reading and supporting a dog's state produces change you can document on film.
What is the Canine Resilience Index?
A tracking framework that documents change across reactive incident frequency, recovery speed, field-test behavior, handler regulation, and the shift in the language you use about your dog. It's a comparable position in time — not a grade or a guarantee.
Do I need the CRI Full Assessment Day first?
Not always. It's the best starting point for complex cases, prior training plateaus, confusing patterns, or families who want a documented baseline before committing to a longer program.
Do I have to live nearby to do this?
No. The Standard Track ($597) runs the full 90-day arc — three monthly Zoom sessions, the Trilogy and Walk Cards, all three field tests with written video assessments, and the Canine Resilience Index — handler-led, with no day training. It's everything in the Hybrid track except the in-person day-training days, which makes it a great fit if you're out of area or simply prefer to do the field work on your own. If you're local and want hands-on field days, the Hybrid and Day Training Upgrade tracks add in-person work with Lorrie.
Where does this take place?
The program is based in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, at Coaching Canine Companions, serving South County and the surrounding areas. Out-of-area handlers can complete the program through the Standard Track.
From the Field Library
Related reading.
If you're ready to stop guessing and start seeing —
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