Therapy & Treatment
Serious Behavior Problems
Evaluation-based work for aggression, anxiety, obsession, severe fear, unsafe reactions, bite risk, and serious behavioral instability.
Evaluation-based work for aggression, anxiety, obsession, severe fear, unsafe reactions, bite risk, and serious behavioral instability.
We classify a problem as serious when it has made day-to-day life genuinely unlivable, or close to it, for the dog and the family. These cases can surface early — some of them are catchable in a young dog if you know what you're looking for, and early intervention matters enormously — or they can develop slowly, through years of an instinct-driven need going unmet or a pattern being unintentionally reinforced until it hardens into habit. ICONK9 treats those two paths differently: we distinguish between the onset of a serious problem and an established one — the onset of obsession is not the same case as an entrenched obsession problem, and the treatment plan reflects that difference.
Attention deficit and hyperactivity, obsession, anxiety, aggression, and fear are the categories we treat as serious behavior problems. Because of how varied and high-stakes these cases are, we don't work from a fixed session count or timeline the way we do with the standard test levels — the scope is set after a full evaluation, and defined by what the individual case actually requires.
Aggression, fear, anxiety, and obsession
Attention/hyperactivity-driven instability
Onset cases treated differently from established ones
Open-ended scope, set after full evaluation
No fixed session cap — scope matches case severity
Serious behavior problems are rarely a single-cause issue, and they rarely respond to advice designed for ordinary household habits. A dog showing real aggression, obsessive patterns, or severe fear needs a plan built around its specific triggers, history, and risk level — not a standard obedience package with extra sessions added on. This is precisely why ICONK9 starts every one of these cases with a dedicated evaluation before defining scope, timeline, or cost: getting the diagnosis right is what makes the treatment plan actually work.
