Calm Canine Academy

New York City can be daunting for humans and pets alike. Karishma has an uncanny ability to understand the psychology behind dogs and how to help them navigate and acclimate to city life. Her patience, insight and teaching methods are simply the best. We have had other trainers, but Karishma is in a league of her own. Her videos and follow up gives us the tools we need to reinforce what she has done in her training lessons. We feel so fortunate to have found Karishma and Calm Canine Academy.

Karishma came to our apartment for a one-hour session with Coco, our 2-year-old foster chihuahua. An hour isn't much time, but Karishma shared an amazing amount of information in that short period. Our foster is very reactive--he barks and snaps at strangers and other dogs, barks when the elevator doors open, barks whenever anyone walks past our door, and especially when anyone walks into our apartment. Karishma gave us very thorough explanations of what's causing this behavior and gave us some tools to start changing it. After a week of implementing her elevator strategy, Coco happily walks in when the doors open. The stranger anxiety is going take a lot longer to manage, but Karishma gave us great advice and really helped us set him up for success. I highly, highly recommend this trainer!

I started searching for a new dog trainer when it became clear our rescue dog was suffering from anxiety and reacting out of fear against other dogs. We had our first in-home consultation with Karishma from Calm Canine Academy and it was clear right from the start that she understood our dog and his reactions. She was able to understand his personality and create a training plan for him that was suitable and realistic. Other trainers we have met have given us “set training plans” which did not take the limitations of our dog into consideration. Karishma was great and was able to create a bespoke training plan for him and us. The rest of her team are great too, very responsive and communicative. We plan to continue to work with her to build our dogs confidence and skills.

Karishma was an answered prayer for us! Our 9 month old lab puppy is in her 'rebellious' phase and she'd been nipping and biting and just being SO bold. We'd tried everything we could think of, read all the articles, trained her every way we knew how and literally nothing worked until Karishma. First impression, Karishma is SO friendly, has such a calming, welcoming presence, and the minute I met her I was a huge fan. We went to her office where she talked through the background of our pup with us and then went straight into her recommendations. She explained so thoroughly what the motivation behind every behavior was, what we should do to combat it, and then demonstrated to us if possible. We literally watched our dog learn to lay down (and stay down) quietly right then and there! She had so many amazing ideas and tips to share and said several times that these were things she had done with her own dogs. We've already begun implementing these things with our dog and although it's not perfect yet, it's a much better situation than before. I would one thousand percent recommend working with Karishma, even if you can only do it once! We gained so much valuable insight and knowledge from her, and she will forever be our go-to trainer for our puppy girl (and any other dogs we may get in the future)!

We don’t have enough good things to say about our experience with Karishma. She came to our apartment to work with us and our 5 month foster pup on getting over some fears of the outdoors and focusing more inside. She immediately got to work and tried to make the most of the hour we had with her. She did a great job explaining the exercises, what they were supposed to help teach him and how to prevent him from getting frustrated. She also sent along very detailed notes about our session, advice, and links to pdfs and videos to make sure we had the support we needed to continue our training without her. We would absolutely recommend working with Karishma and hope to do so in the future with other fosters!