Mentoring in Clinical Animal Behaviour
If you’re seeking mentoring in clinical animal behaviour, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Working with complex behaviour cases can feel challenging, isolating, and at times overwhelming – especially when you’re still building confidence or working towards accreditation. Supportive, thoughtful mentoring can make all the difference.
Zoe Demery, Megan Richardson, and Keely Needham are experienced Clinical Animal Behaviourists who genuinely enjoy supporting others in their professional development. They are happy to provide mentoring or supervision to individuals studying or working in clinical animal behaviour, whether you are progressing through the CCAB route as a FAB Clinicians candidate member, a provisional APBC member, an associate certified IAABC member, a vet or RVN in general practice, or someone simply looking for clearer guidance and reassurance.
You may be working with your first complex cases, preparing for assessments, or considering adding a behaviour clinic to your veterinary practice. Whatever stage you are at, our mentoring in clinical animal behaviour is tailored to your experience, goals, and confidence level, offering a safe, non-judgemental space to reflect, ask questions, and grow.
If you’d like to explore whether mentoring with us feels like the right fit, we’d love to hear from you!
Our mentors are fully insured and, between them, have years of experience running successful clinical behaviour businesses and supporting a wide range of animal behaviour students.
How the Mentors at Second Nature Behaviour Can Support You
At Second Nature Behaviour, we can provide a variety of mentoring services, including:
- Pick your mentor's brains,
- Live case studies,
- Flock mentoring,
- Source your own case to lead,
- Case roleplays,
- Report masters series,
- Be our shadow, and
- CAB kickstarters.
For more information, please refer to our services table.
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What's supervision like?
Our Clinical Animal Behaviour Mentoring Services
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Pick Our Brains
Observe Our Cases
Lead Cases Under Supervision
Source Your Own Case to Lead
Report Masters Series
Case Roleplays
Meet Our Mentors
Meet Second Nature's team, who provide mentoring in clinical animal behaviour.
Zoe Demery
Senior Behaviourist - Dogs, Cats & Parrots
Zoe is a Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CCAB) in dogs, cats and parrots, independently accredited by CCAB Certification (formally the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Accreditation Committee). She is proud to be a Certificated Member of the Fellowship of Animal Behaviour Clinicians, a registered Clinical Animal Behaviourist with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council and a Certified Animal Behaviour Consultant (in parrots, cats and dogs) with the International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants.
Zoe has completed extensive supervision training. She is a registered supervisor and Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society. Zoe has also been trained ‘on the animal side’ of supervision with Loftus & Wild Behaviourist Mentoring & Supervision.
Megan Richardson
Senior Behaviourist - Dogs
Megan graduated from Harper Adams University with a first class BSc (Hons) degree in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, then grew her clinical behaviour practice with dogs and cats. She has many years of experience and is an independently accredited Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CCAB in dogs and cats).
Megan is an active member of various organisations, including FAB Clinicians, APBC and PACT. Last but not least Megan is registered as a CAB and ATI with the ABTC. Megan is passionate about mentoring and growing the next generation of clinical animal behaviourist!
Keely Needham
Senior Behaviourist - Dogs
Keely graduated from Harper Adams University in 2021 with a first class honours degree in Clinical Animal Behaviour and Welfare. She is a Certificated Member of the Fellowship of Animal Behaviour Clinicians, and works part-time as a behaviourist and mentor for a large animal welfare organisation. Keely has independent CCAB accreditation in dogs. She gives talks on career development and loves supporting others find their CAB niche!
“As a referring vet, i want my clients to feel happy with whom I have referred them to and I can honestly say every one has been very pleased!”
“As a vet, I have referred many of my patients to Zoe – she works absolute miracles on cats, dogs and parrots!”
“I cannot recommend Second Nature enough. Zoe gives both my dogs so much care and attention.”
“Zoe has shown us how to deal with our dog’s problems.”
“Really pleased with the outcome and what an enjoyable experience meeting with you – Ted has calmed down a lot now!”
“Whilst Gracie is still an anxious dog, she has made incredible progress and if we are completely honest, more progress than we thought she could make.”
“I do think that if we had not had help Echo wouldn’t be with us today, so this service has been fabulous! With the behaviour plan in place and lots of hard work from us as a family we now have a more relaxed dog.”
“We found Zoe to be extremely knowledgeable and attentive when it came to talking us through the processes we needed to follow to get our little Yorkie under control.”
“I must say the advice you gave me was excellent. I would without hesitation recommend you to anybody with a problem dog.”
