About Amee de Bruijn
Amee de Bruijn is a certified dog behavior consultant, Natural Dog Trainer and the founder of Stressless Dogs. She writes every article on this site, based on the material in the Stressless Dogs courses and on the questions dog parents ask in the community and in her live coaching sessions.
Good, stress-free communication with your dog can be learned, and it is the key to an enjoyable life together.
Training and background
Amee qualified as a dog behavior consultant and as a Natural Dog Trainer (level 5, Calming Signs, 2017). She works only with methods and tools that are free from force, pain, fear and punishment: no choke chains, no head halters, no prong collars, no shock collars and no corrections. What she does use is dog language, an understanding of what a dog needs, and building things up in small steps.
Her starting point is the cause, not the behavior. A dog who lunges, barks, jumps up or cannot be left alone is not being difficult. That dog is communicating something, and usually has been doing so for a long time in signals people miss. Amee looks at the emotion underneath the behavior, at pain, at sleep and at the stress in a dog’s daily life, and only then at training.
Stressless Dogs in numbers
More than 30,000 dog parents have taken a Stressless Dogs course since 2019.
4.4 out of 5 on Trustpilot, with more than 1,200 reviews.
Holder of the Edupet animal welfare certification.
Free webinars on communicating with your dog, watched by more than 96,000 people.
How these articles are written
Every article on this site comes from the teaching material in the Stressless Dogs courses, not from a general search of the web. Where an article makes a claim that goes beyond our own practice, the source is named and linked at the bottom of the page. Where something is our experience rather than a published finding, the article says so.
Articles are reviewed and updated when the course material changes or when questions from dog parents show that something needs to be clearer. The date at the top of each article shows when it was first published, and the line at the bottom shows when it was last updated.
Amee and Jess
Amee developed the Stressless Dogs Method and writes the articles. In the English-speaking community you will mostly see Jess: she presents the free webinar and the videos. The method, the course material and the articles are Amee’s work.
Get in touch
You can email Amee at amee@stresslessdogs.com. She reads everything herself. Start with the free webinar, read the articles on the blog, or look at the Stressless Communication Course.