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Canine Holistic Health & TherapyDiploma Course

This Canine Holistic Health & Therapy Course introduces a range of wellness approaches used to support dogs' wellbeing, helping you better understand the holistic options available.

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What Will You Learn?

This Canine Holistic Health & Therapy Course offers dog owners and canine enthusiasts an opportunity to explore natural, supportive approaches to dog wellbeing. It provides an educational overview of holistic options that can complement veterinary care, aiming to help dogs thrive at all ages. You’ll also learn how to observe and understand the unique needs of each dog, including lifestyle, behaviour, and overall wellness.

While veterinary care remains essential, this course explores key complementary holistic strategies—such as nutrition awareness, gentle therapies, and natural lifestyle enhancements—that may support vitality and long-term quality of life.

With interest in natural health rising among humans, more pet owners are now seeking gentle, wellness-focused ways to care for their dogs. This course also offers insight into lesser-known approaches that promote canine balance, comfort, and resilience.

You’ll explore how veterinarians, dog owners, and holistic wellness practitioners can work together in a complementary way to support a dog’s overall wellbeing. The course highlights how natural approaches can enhance, but never replace, veterinary care—offering a rounded view of canine wellness

This course is ideal for dog lovers, pet guardians, and those interested in working in dog-related fields such as dog grooming or pet wellness. It also makes a valuable companion to our Canine Nutrition Training course. While each course stands on its own, together they offer a broader understanding of how lifestyle and nutrition can support long-term canine health.

Part 1: Health in Focus
Part 2: Where Does Science Fit In?
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 1 Assessment

Part 1: Nutritional Balance
Part 2: Food Intolerance or Allergy
Part 3: 7 Dangerous Foods for Dogs
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 2 Assessment

Part 1: Physical Fitness
Part 2: Canine Stress – A Growing Epidemic
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 3 Assessment

Part 1: What is Mental Health?
Part 2: Restoration of Mental Balance
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 4 Assessment

Part 1: Herbs and Flowers
Part 2: Ailments
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 5 Assessment

Part 1: Homeopathy
Part 2: Aromatherapy
Part 3: Chinese Medicine
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 6 Assessment

Part 1: Canine Massage
Part 2: Other Therapies
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 7 Assessment

Part 1: Weight Gain
Part 2: Weight Loss
Part 3: Lameness and Limping
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Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 8 Assessment

Part 1: Trainers and Training Types
Part 2: Ownership Styles
Part 3: Specific Behaviour Types
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Module 9 Assessment

Part 1: The Law
Part 2: Your Career
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Key Learning Points Exercise
References
Module 10 Assessment

The Canine Holistic Health & Therapy Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace. This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

Many Centre of Excellence courses are Fully Accredited by the world’s leading professional membership association for natural medicine – The Complementary Medical Association (The CMA).

You can apply to join The CMA as a Student Member while you are still studying, and if you do so, you will be eligible to use the post-nominal letters CMA after your name.

Upon graduation from a qualifying course, you will be eligible to apply for CMA Membership, and this will give you numerous professional benefits, including being able to use the letters MCMA after your name – Member of The Complementary Medical Association. This will demonstrate your commitment to excellence and professionalism in the natural healthcare field.

Register with The CMA as a Student or fully qualified Practitioner via the CMA website. You will be asked to submit your certificate of graduation and proof of insurance.

The CMA’s recommended insurers are Westminster global.

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme. Therefore, upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £25).

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through their awarding organisations they have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. They are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Their knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

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