About Billie Groom
Billie is a recognized leader in Canine Behavior and Animal Welfare, an accreditation supported by her over three decades of dedication to, and impact on, canines and the people who love them.
Her tenacity and dedication is recognized by industry experts and animal enthusiasts. Billie has appeared on shows such as Roku TV, LA Tribune, and CTV, and is featured in Psychology Today Magazine by Marc Bekoff. She is the guest on many podcasts, including The Vet Blast, and is a returning guest speaker at the Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine Conferences and Animal Behavior Society Conferences. She is the author of an award-winning book and has her own podcast, which is ranked in top five in the animal category. She is a recipient of the 2024 Best Business Award and has received many accolades throughout her career.
Billie is honored to accept the request to be a TedX Speaker (2025) and to present at Hartpury University in the Animal Assisted Therapy Program (2025).
In 2022, Billie completed the Brain Development in Life Stages Courses by Dr. Kathy Murphy, and in 2023 completed the Cognition and Emotions to Improve Animal Welfare course offered by the Swedish University of Agricultural Science as part of their PhD program. She began the PhD program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University in which she excelled; however, made the decision to leave the program to pursue a path aligning with her goals, ethics, and principles. Billie launched ICP, and is pursuing her PhD in Transpersonal Ecology at the University of Sedona.
Her “unintentional” success as an innovator, disruptor, entrepreneur, and behaviorist opened the doors to connect with psychologists, psychiatrists, veterinarians, scientists, rescue organizations, and industry experts. Her desire to continue her learning journey led to extensive volunteer work, research, collaborative projects, courses, studies, and uncountable “chinwags”, all of which expanded her knowledge and led to the creation of the Institute of Canine Psychotherapy.
Billie accredits her success to her method, Canine Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is the product of her relentless pursuit to ensure all dogs are understood, respected, and encouraged to thrive cognitively and emotionally, thus preventing surrender and euthanasia. The support and trust from the rescue organizations and the dogs in the early stages of her journey was vital to the development of this method, and the thousands of lives she has positively impacted.
Her extensive hands-on experience working with hundreds of dogs, including dogs from the fighting circuit, Korean meat market, backyard breeders, reputable breeders, and war zones, as well as discarded working dogs, and free-roaming dogs from Central America, Canadian northern reservations, and United States, combined with her formal education formed her independent, less-than-direct, albeit, interesting, fulfilling, and rewarding, personal and professional journey.
