Laurena Haroy, dog & cat behaviorist

My background

Drawing of Laurena Haroy with a dog, a cat, plants and books

An animal behaviorist since 2007, I have trained in depth in animal psychology and ethology, with an approach that combines behavioral science, ethology and complementary therapeutic techniques. Here are the main areas of my training:

Animal psychology

  • Learning theories: reward-based learning and intelligence
  • Conditioning techniques
  • Working dogs
  • Guide dogs for the blind
  • Animal societies
  • Territory and hierarchy
  • Primate societies
  • Social behavior of the cat
  • Pathological aggression
  • Psychoanalytic theory: the concepts of drive and need
  • The dog's instinctive life: instincts, heredity, behavior

Canine behavior disorders

  • Introduction to human psychology
  • Introduction to psychoanalysis
  • Animals and their symbols, the animal psyche
  • Dreams and sleep in animals
  • Experimental neurosis (the Russian school, depressive states)
  • The American school (Masserman's biodynamic theory)
  • Ethology (observation)
  • Behavioral abnormalities in dogs
  • Psychotherapeutic techniques
  • Range of therapies (hypnosis, body therapies, osteopathy, acupuncture, NLP, interview techniques…)

Therapies, canine anatomy and physiology

  • Anatomy, physiology and the main diseases of the dog
  • Psychosomatics
  • Energy psychotherapy
  • Reich's theory, bioenergetics
  • The effects of massage: hormonal functions, massage techniques, clinical study
  • Osteopathy
  • Relaxation
  • Schultz's autogenic training (method, technique…)
  • NLP: changing unwanted behaviors, learning interview techniques

Feline behavior

  • The behavioral development of the cat
  • The prenatal period
  • The neonatal period
  • The transitional period
  • The socialization period
  • The role of the mother
  • Acquiring self-control
  • Learning: litter habits, hunting/predation, grooming, sensory homeostasis, detachment…
  • The activity field: play, hunting, interactions, reproduction
  • The isolation field
  • The aggression field
  • Communication systems: olfactory, tactile, visual and auditory
  • Semiology and ethogram of the cat: feeding, elimination, somesthetic and centrifugal behaviors
  • Interactions with the social environment
  • Interactions with the physical environment
  • Sexual and maternal behavior
  • Pathological states and behavioral disorders
  • Disorders in young and adult cats
  • Disorders related to the living environment
  • Treating feline psychopathology: pheromones, behavioral therapies