Meet Our Fabulous Training Instructors!
Our staff truly sets us apart from any other training business locally. All of our lead training instructors absolutely must be a certified professional or for sports-only instructors, they must be a judge or national level competitor in that sport. We know that the quality of the instructor improves the quality of instruction and we want our students to have the best.
Kelly Wilson CPDT-KA–Group Classes, Day Training, and Private Lessons
Kelly is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer with CCPDT and is a certified Canine Good Citizen and Star Puppy Evaluator for AKC. She started her path to dog training as a volunteer at The Western Pennsylvania Humane Society (now Humane Animal Rescue) 20 years ago cleaning dog kennels and walking dogs. She moved into vet tech training, assistant training, and eventually became a lead trainer for their public classes. Over the last 5 years she has adopted much of Tena’s curriculum into her classes at HAR and has assisted Tena to master the SJC curriculum.
She will be teaching Puppy K, Elementary Manners, and Middle School Manners group starting summer 2021 and will be offering private and private in-home training for basic manners and typical training challenges starting in early fall 2021. We are very hopeful that she will head up our Therapy Dog program starting in 2022 some time!
Outside of dog training, Kelly ran a very successful pet sitting business for 20 years, prior to taking up training more full time and not seeing pet sitting clients most of the time. She loves learning and has decided to go back to vet tech school to finish what she started many years ago.
Kelly shares her life with her labrador retriever, Bullet, and her senior dog, Penny. She and Bullet are working towards his CGC, Therapy Dog certfiication, and dog sports!
“Hey Kelly, what’s your favorite skill to teach dogs and their owners?”
Mu favorite skill to teach is loose leash walking because so many dog owners have dogs that pull on the leash and dogs that pull on the leash are less likely to get walks that they need to be more relaxed and calm in the home. I know that by helping people with this skill, dogs get more freedom, more walks , more exercise, and more bonding time with their owners. Its a win-win for everyone.
Coleman Fish CPDT-KA, CVT, SJC-CDT –Group Classes, Day Training, and Private Lessons
Coleman spent 4 years in an apprentice program at SJC working up to teaching entire classes on her own. She spent her time learning training skills, the science of training, our training process, plenty of training techniques to problem solve issues, and solid classroom management and human teaching skills. She put all of her knowledge to the test and recently passed her Certified Professional Dog Training exam with flying colors and completed her apprenticeship program earning both her CPDT-KA and SJC-CDT. She is looking forward to adding CGC evaluator and Certified Trick Dog Instructor to her accolades in the near future!
She loves spending time training her dog, Arvo, in Rally Obedience, Scentwork, tricks, and how to be a good boy on hikes with doggie friends. Arvo was a wayward hound as young dog and provided a great learning opportunity for her to start handling spicy dogs, but after all her hard work, he’s a fabulous dog sport partner and she’s become a fabulous handler.
While she loves working with all the pups and will be starting with basic training, she has a soft spot for working with spicy dogs and is looking forward to continuing her education in a behavior modification focus, so she can help owners who were like her, struggling with a dog with big feelings.
Outside of dog training, Coleman is a Certified Veterinary Technician working at Point Breeze Veterinary Clinic.
Katherine Anselm CPDT-KA, Fear Free Certified–Group Classes, Flyball
Katherine is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) as well as a Fear Free Certified trainer.
She got her start in training working with her own dog Kuzhaar. She realized her love for training and decided that helping people learn to train their dogs effectively was her calling.
She strives to always provide her students with the most scientifically sound, compassionate, and humane ways to train their dog. She continues to seek out opprunities to grow as a trainer and completes regular continuing education at seminars, conf is always looking for ways to further her education and regularly attends dog training conferences and seminars.
She started her flyball journey in Ohio years ago. She moved to California and continued to play flyball and begane teaching flyball classes. She recently moved back east to Pittsburgh area and currently trains with Manic Menagerie flyball team.
She competes in several sports with her but really enjoys doing flyball and of all the sports she competes in, flyball is her favorite. Flyball has provided a great way to keep her dogs active while also learning how to problem solve through various training challenges. She has won a national championship and her dogs have competed in eight states with three different clubs.
Meet our Assistant Trainers!
(We would not be nearly as awesome without their fabulous help! They keep our student to instructor ratio exceptionally low for group classes and help ensure each student gets ample one on one attention!)
Nadine Walz Josephs CBCC-KA, CPDT-KA, M.ed.
Nadine has been working at Success Just Clicks for a while now to continually improve her knowledge of dogs and dog training. She enjoys working with likeminded professionals, in a positive environment. Watching the progress between people and their dogs as they participate in the variety of classes offered, is what she enjoys most. Nadine
shares the SJC philosophy that a ‘well trained dog, can do more” and she would also add “and have fun”
doing so.
Zee Altherr KPA-CTP
Zee earned their Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner in December of 2021, and joined the SJC team shortly after to focus on strengthening their teaching and training skills. They are a big proponent of continuing education and puts a lot of time into it to stay relevant and well-rounded in the field. In addition to assisting at SJC, Zee can be found managing the training department at a local animal shelter. They hope to one day build a client base of their own, and eventually focus on service dogs.
Meg Grabe
Meg recently started working at Success Just Clicks this year as an assistant and an official apprentice but has enjoyed training her personal dogs for the past ten years with Tena. Over the years she’s gained an incredible body of knowledge and skillset for training. She loves competing in numerous dog sports and spending time outdoors hiking with Penny and Randy. Her goals include new skills as a trainer and gaining hours to take the CPDT-KA exam.
