Meet Katie Sipple!

Meet Katie Sipple IAABC-ADT, FDM, B.Sc.

Kathryn “Katie” Sipple (she/her) is a passionate advocate for mental health awareness and trauma informed care within dog training.

She is an Accredited Dog Trainer with the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, a Certified Family Dog Mediator, and a graduate of the Aggression in Dogs Master Course. 

Katie is disabled, living with both physical disability (Multiple Sclerosis, Dysautonomia, Chronic Migraine, Occipital Neuralgia, more!) and mental disability (Complex PTSD, neurodivergence, more!). She hopes that this transparency in her diagnoses within her professional career will help other disabled people find safe dog training help and encourage others in the same position to consider entering this flexible professional field. When you hire Katie you’re supporting a disabled person’s dream to return to the working world.

Beyond disability and mental health, Katie is on a mission to revolutionize the way dogs and people live in multi dog households by helping them avoid chaos, aggression and squabbles in favor of harmony. 

Her roadmap to dog-dog introductions and relationship building gives clients a comprehensive path to success laid out in step by step detail. Its aim is preserving placements in multi dog homes across the country through conflict prevention and rapid identification of behavior problems requiring intervention. 

When chaos has already arrived, she’s still the dog trainer for you! Intrahousehold dog aggression is by far her favorite dog training puzzle.

She lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her beloved German Shepherds, rescue dog and partner Kyle.

Her oldest dog is Zeke, a Border Collie/ Chinese Shar-Pei Mix who joined her on many college adventures. Phoenix the GSD is Katie’s retired PTSD service dog. Rounding out the crew is Fisher, Katie’s service dog in training drop out and certified spicy boy. When she’s not with her dogs you’ll find her somewhere in the great outdoors or engaged in some epicly nerdy activity, like Dungeons and Dragons, Gen Con, board games, or binge reading her way through piles of books. She’s a proud Illini and graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Holding a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology that collects dust in favor of a life of dog training.

Did you enjoy Meeting Katie Sipple? Check out her services, credentials and conference/podcast appearances below.