Julie Robitaille, CAMT, CPDT-KA, is the Founder of Animal Wellness Massage Therapy and Touch Click Calm, LLC, a Certified Small Animal Massage Therapist and a Certified Pet Dog Trainer. She is a graduate of the Bancroft School of Massage Therapy and completed an internship at Sterling Impressions Animal Rehabilitation Center of New England where she currently works.
Julie is best known for her work with reactive and aggressive canine behavior modification/rehabilitation and is the Co-Founder of the TACT methodology, Touch Associated Clicker Training. Julie has been a canine behavior consultant with Emma Parsons author of Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog in reactive dog training classes and seminars since 2007. Julie and Emma have presented seminars for Click to Calm, TACT, and How to Teach a Reactive Dog Class across the US and in Europe. Parsons and Robitaille recently published their TACT methodology as a 5 set DVD and Companion Workbook through Clean Run Productions.
TACT began its experimental stages in early 2007 when Julie was repeatedly requested by clients to provide canine massage therapy services to dogs that did not welcome the touch of human strangers. Julie experimented with Parsons Click to Calm methodology and over time developed a new training methodology specifically designed to prevent and rehabilitate fearful, reactive, and aggressive canine behavior directed at people. Parsons and Robitaille debuted TACT in Tomelilla Sweden in September of 2009. Julie has taken on dozens of case study dogs since early 2007 including Swedish case study dogs with Natasja and Malvina Ravenklint of Hundens Utbildningsakademi through video web conferencing.
Julie has a diverse background in animal welfare both in domestic and wildlife with a strong professional background in business development. Julie is the Operations Committee Member of the State of Massachusetts Animal Response Team (SMART), the Co-Team Leader for SMART’s Search and Rescue Team, and a Rescue Correspondence volunteer for the Animal Rescue League of Boston Rescue Services division. Julie has completed the IWRC Wildlife Rehabilitators course at HSUS Cape Wildlife Center and is currently studying towards her Massachusetts Wildlife Rehabilitators license. Julie has completed the ACOAM, Animal Control Officers Association of Massachusetts Certification Program for Massachusetts Animal Protection and Law Enforcement and currently works with many Animal Control officers with canine behavior modification programs.
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