Just like you – I have an interesting story!

I have lived a varied life. Always tending to art and music, a lot of my life has been spent caring for those I chose to surround myself with. 

I spent a happy few years working in the Music Department at BBC Radio 3, before leaving for a four-year Honours Degree at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts, where I specialised in carved lettering and fine art. 

There followed an idyllic period in rural Ireland, drawing, fulfilling large stone-carving commissions, tending my pedigree sheep and my prizewinning, cheese-producing, dairy goats , plus hens, donkey, cats, dogs, and children.

And this is the time when I enjoyed a lot of dog sports, making up my first dog a Working Trials Champion.  

Back in England, I studied dog behaviour (always force-free) and started my dog training school Good for Dogs in Worcestershire. This soon branched into a series of popular dog training how-to books, alongside my online programs at brilliantfamilydog.com, where I’ve become known for my accessible, jargon-free, force-free, blame-free, training (and results!). 

I have been focussing much more on drawing and writing recently, and I have now published eleven dog-training how-to books , two womens fiction novels , and a series of Cozy English Mysteries under the name Lucy Emblem.

Always a country-lover at heart, I gaze from my desk across the thousands of acres of National Park which start at my garden fence. Walking in nature feeds my soul. And seeing people’s lives change with a little guidance, is always enthralling.

Beverley Courtney

BA(Hons) • CPC • ELI-MP • CBATI-KSA • CAP2 • MAPDT • ABTC (Registered Animal Trainer) • UKCPS Silver