K9 Therapy Hub
Certificated Bitesize CPD Courses to explore and study.
An innovative Template Toolbox for you to download and use.
Additional resources in our Video Toolbox and Articles + Journals.
A vibrant community to share ideas with other like minded therapists.
Let me ask you a few questions…
- Are you feeling pressure to consistently deliver a high quality service and not sure WHY?
- Do you need friendly support and mentoring to continue to progress your clinical skills?
- Are you frustrated by the shortage of relevant and certificated canine clinical CPD courses?
- Are you struggling to find the time to study due to your workload, commitments and busy life?
- Do you worry about meeting your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements?
- Would you like to progress your canine skills using micro learning in Bitesize CPD courses?
You’re not alone, it’s why we created the K9 Therapy Hub as a monthly membership community full of clinical resources and sustainable business management tools.
Learn in comfort at home
The K9 Therapy Hub is a canine therapist membership site with an incorporated community designed to actively support you along your career journey. It offers 90+ endorsed and individually certificated bitesize CPD courses, a comprehensive business Template Toolbox to select, download and customise for canine practice, an exciting and informative Video Toolbox of useful videos to review, plus our expanding collection of relevant articles and journals.
This is all at your fingertips, with 24/7 access and no additional fees or charges. We have frozen our monthly fee of £17 for the last 5 years and will continue to run this innovative clinical resource service at cost. This concept support clinicians with an affordable CPD pathway to advance clinical skills, support clinical practice development and ensure the best service is provided for dogs and their owners.
Online micro learning offers the flexibility of when to study and gives the freedom to learn anywhere. This can be a “dip in and out approach” or used as a continuous access approach so as not to miss out on the most up to date and effective practical skills and tools. A career journey of learning and professional commitment to deliver the best service is required for a successful and sustainable canine clinical services. We ensure each member gets to choose how to use the Hub to best suit them and work at their chosen pace.
Micro learning has been proven to facilitate clinical skills acquisition, as part of continuing professional development (CPD) for therapists. Studies have clearly shown that micro learning progresses and improves clinical skills and practice, plus increase safety in the clinical environment.
We know there is a missing link from qualification to setting up in the industry, plus at the 2 year point, with still further challenges in sustaining a high quality clinical service. Our vision is to bridge this gap, empower therapists to achieve their goals and inform on how to build a sustainable canine therapy service.
We provide high quality bitesize CPD courses and active support for every therapist within our Hub community.
What’s inside?
Members have unlimited access to our online inner community to share ideas and conversations with like minded individuals across the globe.
We explore canine rehabilitation, physiotherapy, aquatic therapies and hydrotherapy, massage therapies, manual therapies, movement therapies, professionalism, plus sustainable business management.
Therapeutic CPD Tracks includes breed biology, common canine conditions, functional anatomy and biomechanics, professionalism, techniques (assessment and treatment) and clinical tools. We also have linked series within the tracks to integrate a flow of study.
🐾 Individually verified and certificated CPD courses to select from and explore.
🐾 Clinical relevant CPD activities and tasks to support your progression.
🐾 CPD courses organised in different ways to support your choices: by progression, Therapeutic Tracks and Skill Level categories.
🐾 Resources – instructional technical videos, worksheets, quizzes, scripted lessons, articles, journals, downloadable PDFs, annotated diagrams, video and information links and top clinical tips.
what others are saying
The K9 Hub is really amazing! K9HS has really outdone themselves creating a space of useful information related to dogs for canine professionals.
I love the “OneShot videos” demonstrating therapeutic techniques and appreciate the articles, containing pertinent scientific studies.
This helps me solidify my knowledge and grow my “clinical skill-set” so I can make a positive impact on the lives of my canine clients and their owners.
The K9 Hub is an excellent source of information for all canine therapists.
To be able to find so many exciting and varied topics in one place for your CPD requirements is so helpful.
It also makes it really easy to be able to refer back and find sound clinical reasoning and helpful clinical tips.
Being in touch with Barb through booked calls makes it feel like a real community!
As a busy working clinician, it’s always challenging to find clinically relevant CPD courses that are flexible to access! The K9 Hub is just that! There is a vast amount of information available, but unlike many other CPD courses, it’s incredible value for money, plus presented in a dynamic and clinically relevant way.
The layout is very user friendly and I can genuinely say that it has had a positive impact on my clinical practice. I would highly recommend it to everyone!
I cannot recommend this amazing Hub enough. Whilst we want to learn, refresh and obtain more information, it tends to be long days of cpd which include travel, time and cost, and not always suited to our learning style.
This Hub enables you to learn and refresh at your own speed and to delve deeper into the topics of your interest. It’s affordable and if you’re like me, being relaxed and comfy assists me to achieve an enriched learning pathway that relates to my clinical practice.
So, sign up, get comfy and be ready to learn from this amazing resource.
The K9 Hub enables me to study and watch topics again. I am dyslexic and so find it necessary to learn and review topics. Being a member helps me to learn at my own speed. The videos and how the information is explained in each topic is easy to follow and understand.
I also can contact Barbara if I am struggling or need support. Barbara always makes me feel relaxed and learning is easy.
K9HS cares about helping me succeed and get the most out of my hydrotherapy knowledge and CPD.
Thank you Barbara, you are our canine hydro Guru!
An animal massage colleague led me to K9HS and I am so glad. Once I viewed a couple of the bitesize canine anatomy webinars and was completely hooked. As someone of moderate experience in small animal massage, the resources are invaluable.
They are a quick and easy time commitment and presented in a wonderful manner. I now find myself thinking back to a video as I work with a dog (“a ha!” moments).
I know my more experienced colleagues enjoy the resources too – credit to Barbara and crew for making the materials so enticing and relevant, it’s two paws up from me!
K9 Therapy Hub
MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP
MONTH TO MONTH - YOU CAN CANCEL ANYTIME- Clinical and Business Template Toolbox for you to download, adapt and use for your own practice, time saving and ensuring you meet your professional and legal requirements
- 90+ bitesize CPD courses, each one individually verified and certificated for 2 hours of CPD study
- Open access to a chat space within the K9 Community to ask questions and share ideas. We send you regular emails to support your Hub experience plus broadcasts on our new releases
- Additional resources to explore in the Video Toolbox and our fast expanding Articles + Journals collection of relevant studies and topics
- An ongoing pledge to continue to grow the Hub content and share current physiotherapy, massage therapies and canine clinical hydrotherapy assessment and treatment techniques in micro learning packages
Answers to some of your questions
Why did you create the K9 Therapy Hub?
We listened to feedback from therapists worldwide who are challenged to find canine CPD from a clinical perspective. As experienced solution makers, we devised our Bitesize Canine Anatomy series and published part of this on our K9HS YouTube channel. This led to an amazing reaction and we followed through to launch our successful Canine CPD Library to support working therapists.
Its been a natural pathway to revolutionise and evolve these, offering the complete CPD clinical experience through the K9 Therapy Hub, perfect for canine therapists.
How is this different from other memberships?
We have integrated key professional elements into the site for our members. It’s tough to be at your best every moment in a clinical practice setting. We all need confidential opportunities to discuss cases, search for solutions, have access to trusted and experienced mentorship, as well as to be listened to. Our professional status and ethical choices linked to over 40 years of clinical experience is shared with our members by:
- Unlimited access to our interactive private community, sharing ideas and resources with like minded therapists
- Office hours booked for 1 to 1 professional discussions with canine specialist Barbara Houlding
- Regular new course releases and launches
The site is accessible on all devices and you select the topic, set your pace and choose when and where you wish to study. This immersive and progressive method using relevant, species specific techniques and focused on a shared practice ethos you feel is right, is a rare find.
Our multiformat style includes customised built resources, webinar events, instructional videos, downloadable PDFs, referenced information, interesting articles presented in an easy to use and with unlimited access. This is integrated to our friendly and supportive community and a one to one personal approach with each member of our inner community.
Do I need to be tech-savvy to find my way around the K9 Therapy Hub?
Not at all! Our learning platform is extremely easy to navigate. If you have any issues you can always reach out to us via email or in our online community.
What if I join and it's not the right fit for me?
If, at any time, you don’t want to continue with your K9 Therapy Hub membership you can cancel at any time before your next renewal.
How do I join?
It’s easy! Just CLICK HERE to view the membership options and click on the membership option that’s right for you. You’ll be taken to the checkout where you’ll create your account and enter your credit card information to pay, then voila! You’ll have access to everything in the K9 Therapy Hub.