OUR FOUNDER

Adia Shanee is a behavior specialist, educator, and author known for her work with dogs who live with anxiety, reactivity, emotional overwhelm, trauma histories, and sensory sensitivity. She specializes in supporting the dogs often labeled as “too much,” “too reactive,” or “too unpredictable” for traditional training and the guardians committed to helping them heal.

For more than two decades, Adia has helped dogs and guardians build safer, calmer, and more connected lives together through relationship-based, behavior-informed work. Her approach centers nervous-system safety, instinctual fulfillment, emotional literacy, and consent-based handling offering a trauma-free alternative to obedience-focused training.

Adia is the creator of the THE N.A.T.U.R.E.™ Framework , BraveFace™, and the Sniff First™ model for trauma-free intake and observation in pet service spaces such as veterinarians and groomers.

Behavioral Experience

  • 20+ years specializing in dogs with big feelings

  • Lead Behavior Specialist at Woof Houze

  • Widely recognized as a regional expert in sensitive, reactive, and trauma-impacted dogs

  • Specialized experience with anxiety, reactivity response, fear-based behaviors, multi-dog households, resource concerns, and bite-risk cases

  • Behavior consultant for shelters, rescues, and community-based canine programs

Professional Training & Education

  • Doctorate-level education in animal behavior and applied behavioral science

  • Extensive continuing education in behavior science, ethology, nervous-system regulation, and trauma-informed care

  • Specialized training in canine body language, behavior assessment, emotional-support frameworks, and consent-based handling

  • Developer of multiple behavior methodologies now used by guardians and professionals

  • CDBC, CSAT, LFDM-B, S, T, Small Animal Nutritionist

Published Work & Media

  • Author: Nature Therapy™: Rewilding the Canine Spirit

  • Author: UNTRAINED: The Journey from Control to Connection (Coming 2026)

  • Author: Heart Notes Series (2025)

  • Podcast Host: Behavior Matters™

  • Founder: Guardian Guide™ publication

OUR PRACTICE

Woof Houze practices connection-based, behavior-informed, and trauma-free care.

Our work is grounded in emotional safety, nervous-system awareness, and relationship over performance.

How We Support Dogs

  • Nervous-system safety

  • Consent-based handling

  • Relationship building

  • Nature-aligned experiences

  • Observation before correction

  • Emotional literacy

  • Muzzle advocacy through BraveFace™

  • Sensory and instinctual fulfillment

Our Enrichment Philosophy: The N.A.T.U.R.E.™ Framework

At Woof Houze, we support instinctual fulfillment through a rewilded approach that honors each dog’s emotional, biological, and sensory needs.

Our team uses the N.A.T.U.R.E.™ Framework — Natural Activities That Unlock Rewilded Expression — to guide enrichment in the Private & Group Coaching, Academy, WagTime, and the Woof Lounge.

What We Do NOT Use

  • No e-collars

  • No prong collars

  • No dominance-based methods

  • No force, fear, or pain

  • No “balanced training”

  • No flooding or forced socialization

  • No suppression-based techniques

We do not use aversive methods. Period.

WHY WE EXSIST

Woof Houze was created for the dogs who don’t fit traditional training or daycare models the tender ones, the unsure ones, the ones who feel deeply.

The dogs who need time, warmth, and space.

The guardians who want to understand the animal in front of them not dominate them.

We help dogs learn how to feel safe in their bodies, confident in their choices, and comfortable in new spaces while supporting guardians through the emotional part of the journey.

Because when dogs feel safe, everything else becomes possible.

WE BELIEVE

We believe all dogs deserve:

• Safety

• Agency

• Connection

• Community

• Behavior is communication

• Nervous systems must feel safe first

• Confidence grows through supported exposure

• Guardians deserve guidance, not shame

We’re here because dogs are like people too just in fur.

OUR APPROACH

Connection > Correction

Safety > Speed

Learning > Compliance

Compassion > Control

We don’t demand.

We don’t suppress.

We support, guide, and help dogs become themselves.

At their pace.

In their bodies.

With their guardians beside them.

This is more than a facility.

It’s rebellion. It’s a return. It’s rewilding.

We exist for guardians who want more than obedience.

Ready to Connect

Let’s Begin the Journey If you’re a guardian seeking real support, start here. We’re ready to walk with you one aligned step at a time.