Canine Massage Therapy Centre

Natalie's Story...

After a severe muscular back injury in my teenage years left me on walking sticks, I was written off doctors. But after receiving clinical massage with a skilled therapist my mobility returned, I was able to get out of the restrain cycle I was in, ditched the sticks and didn't need a knee operation I was told I needed (and haven't needed to this day) all because of clinical massage

My own epiphany combined with my love for my soul mate dog Pip the JRT, made me think 'there must be something like this for dogs?', and so I undertook a canine massage course which was unfortunately sub-standard, inadequate, unsafe and with only 13 techniques I knew it wasn't enough to truly help dogs in the way I had been helped.

So I trained as a clinical massage therapist for humans and undertook thousands of hours or training and practice to become not just a good, but a skilled and highly respected bodyworker for both dogs and humans. Eventually I developed what is now known as the Lenton Method and boy did things take off! I was getting unheard of results in dogs in an incredibly short time frame and often seeing what owners were describing as 'miracles'.

I had people bring their dogs from all corners of the England, Scotland, Wales with some owners coming in from Europe to get their dogs treated. People started to say 'I want to do what you do' and so I wrote what is now the externally accredited 'Clinical Canine Massage Practitioner Programme, and in 2011 I founded the worlds largest association of therapists, the Canine Massage Guild. I've also written several one-day gateway courses for owners and still deliver this online and in person. I wrote a further 17 CPD courses for advanced massage for therapists including neuromuscular work, advanced indirect MFR, MLD and lots more! I also train licensed canine massage instructors with the 'Workshop Instructor Programme', which provides a career progression for therapists and in 2021 the results of the clinical trials which researched The Lenton Method (not just any canine massage, it's often misquoted) was published in the Vet Record by the British Veterinary Association, making it the most groundbreaking research in the area of complementary therapies for dogs to date. I'm also a qualified and registered meditation teacher, retreat facilitator and Heartmath Institute coach because all roads lead to Rome...

I live near the borders of Wales with my heartbeats Lyra the Collie x Terrier and Pan the JRT (x chi we think!) and besides this my interests lie in the study of non-local consciousness as well as the practices associated with them and I'm always looking to work with people on this .

When it comes to the CMTC and the Guild, I don't do it by myself so this is my shoutout to those that work with me. I am supported by an incredible team of tutors, office managers, a committee with the Canine Massage Guild and the support of all my customers over the years as well as that of all the therapists I've trained and for that I will always grateful as its all of these people who have also helped to bring canine massage, my life purpose, to the world, to the owners and to all our beloved dogs. But most all it's the thousands and thousands of dogs I've had the honour of treated that have changed my life that have taught me. If you've got this far reading this, then chances are you are here because your dog has opened your heart and you want to know if me, my team or a therapist I've trained can help you or your dog. If we can help then will tell you we can, but if not, then we often know the right person who can help you...