Biography

Sonia Villalba Tudela has a BA in Public Relations and Advertising and an MA in Digital Media. She is a certified dog trainer and behaviorist, Member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, and has studied dog behavior for three decades in Spain and abroad. She holds an Animal-Assisted Therapy Certificate and is accredited for the treatment of cynophobia. She specializes in the modification of unwanted behaviors in dogs, especially canine aggression, through the daily study of the incidence of overstress and motivation, investigating the bases of human psychology to establish comparative studies between the two species. She is the author of “Relationship between Serotonin Levels and Aggressive Behavior in Dogs”. A qualified life coach, she is especially interested in motivational tools to achieve the best results in her work. She has appeared in several radio and television programs in Spain as an expert in dog behavior. She is also the chairman of Kanstak Sport, an association for dog sports and “Asociación Internacional para el bienestar humano y canino”, association dedicated to the research of human and canine well-being through comparative phychology. Sonia Villalba Tudela is the founder and CEO of Kanstak Educación Canina (Kanstak Canine Education)