Claire had her spark for dog training ignited while completing a mentorship under a local service dog trainer for an ADI accredited organization. From there, she learned how a service dog would benefit her life with her own disabilities. In 2020, she received her first service dog prospect and after a year made the difficult decision to wash him for an inappropriate temperament for service work. Since then, she has fully trained her current service dog, Pluto, added a second dog, Winnie (service dog in training), into her family, and pursued further education within the field of dog training. As of 2025, Claire has graduated multiple teams from her program into their titles of fully trained service dogs. She currently attends training seminars geared towards service dog training, is working towards a service dog specific certification, and has experience with a variety of breeds and dogs for service work.

Claire exclusively offers training for service dogs. She will work with a variety of service dogs, including, but not limited to, psychiatric, medical alert, mobility, and allergen detection. Claire believes in training the dog in front of you, using a Least Intrusive, Minimally Aversive methodology. This means Claire will look at the whole picture of the dog (health, environment, etc) before moving on to training methods. Not every method will work for every dog, so it’s important for us to take everything into consideration before training ever begins.

As of August 2025, Claire is now an official consultant and board member for International Assistance Dog Alliance (IADA), a non-profit aiming to advance social welfare for service dog handlers.

If you reach out to us at Cosmic, Cora is likely the one answering you! She is in charge of all things scheduling and helping answering your questions.

Cora has a retired service dog and recently welcomed her new service dog in training, Koivu, into her family. Koivu was returned to her breeder at nine months old. After undergoing an in-depth evaluation, Koivu was matched with Cora and spent seven weeks with Claire, learning the foundations of service work, before heading home with her new handler.

Here at Cosmic we value the community we serve of disabled folks, so it’s important to us that those employed here are apart of the same community. Cora lives on the East Coast and is passionate about working with others in the communities she belongs to!

Mercury found their passion for training dogs in 2020 over the pandemic. She started training their family dog, Lily, to do tricks and slowly started finding tasks that could help their disabilities, and eventually Lily became a Service Dog. Lily is now retired and she is training their second service dog, Cricket as her successor. They have attended dog communication seminars, and also work as a part time dog groomer. She has now started a mentorship with Cosmic Service Dogs and is very excited to see where it leads.

As of June 2025, Cricket has officially graduated the Cosmic Service Dog Program. He has completely all behavior and health testing required of them, as well as completed learning for all tasks needed by Mercury!