Behaviourist Support

For behaviour professionals seeking veterinary input where medical factors may be influencing behaviour.

Behaviour cases frequently involve overlapping medical and behavioural components. Pain, endocrine disease, gastrointestinal disturbance, dermatological discomfort, neurological change, and medication effects can all influence emotional state and behaviour.

Where medical factors may be contributing, access to veterinary input can provide clarity, confidence, and stronger multidisciplinary collaboration between behaviour professionals and veterinary teams.

This service provides structured veterinary behavioural input and collaborative case discussion to support your clinical reasoning, identify when further medical investigation may be appropriate, and strengthen communication between you, the client, and the primary care veterinary practice.

This is intended as a supportive professional discussion between colleagues, recognising that behaviour cases can be complex and that veterinary input may be helpful when medical contributors are suspected.

Who This Service Is For

This service may be helpful for behaviour professionals who:

• are working with a case where pain or medical factors may be contributing to behaviour
• would value veterinary insight when considering behavioural differentials
• would like support communicating medical concerns to the client’s veterinary practice
• are managing complex or escalating behaviour presentations
• are seeking collaborative veterinary input while continuing to lead the behavioural intervention

This service is suitable for behaviour professionals working within recognised ethical and welfare-centred practice frameworks.

• Clinical Case Review: Review of the behavioural history and any relevant veterinary information, reports, or videos available for the case.

• Case Consultation: Up to a 60-minute Zoom or telephone case discussion to review the presentation in detail and explore potential medical contributors to the behaviour.

• Medical Insight and Diagnostic Guidance: Collaborative discussion of potential pain-related, systemic, neurological, dermatological, or medication-related influences on behaviour, including identification of clinical red flags and guidance on when further veterinary investigation may be appropriate.

• Medication and Veterinary Recommendations: Where appropriate, structured recommendations can be provided for discussion with the client’s veterinary surgeon. This may include suggested investigations, pain management considerations, or psychopharmacological options.

• Integrated Case Planning: Support in aligning behavioural intervention with any identified or suspected medical components to help ensure safe, ethical, and welfare-centred outcomes.

• Professional Documentation Support: Assistance with clear, veterinary-aligned wording for reports or recommendations where helpful, particularly when communicating concerns to veterinary practices.

• Ongoing Support: Following the consultation, ongoing case support is available for two months, including up to four follow-up emails per month relating to the case. This allows for continued discussion as cases progress, further information becomes available, or veterinary investigations are pursued.

• Note: The primary veterinary surgeon retains full clinical responsibility for diagnosis, investigation, and prescribing throughout.

If you would like to discuss whether a case may benefit from veterinary behavioural input, please do get in touch.