About Us

The Galen Therapy Centre was established in 2002 by Julia Robertson, Lead Consultant. Since that time the company has grown organically from its head office in West Sussex, to provide not only treatment for dogs, but training as well, with its wide range of workshops and Galen Diploma in Canine Massage that is externally accredited by the OCN at level 3.

The Centre specialises purely within the canine world always looking for ways to improve the life for dogs through good treatment protocols that can be used by all handlers for their dogs. One of the many ways we are improving how we work is by introducing a fully functional and legal professional body. This enjoys both an operational and executive committee. The Executive committee is made up of Veterinary Surgeons and top Canine Professionals that have no direct connection to Galen; this provides the transparency, legality and external support that a body such as this requires. It also has an integral complaints procedure that will be managed as laid down by the constitution.

With the development of the Canine Massage therapy, Galen are even more determined to set a high standard of training and practice and will not tolerate any practitioner who practices outside the law or the code of conduct and ethics.

Canine Myotherapy (massage) is still very much a growing industry that is receiving increasing recognition for its amazing work. Galen is very much at the forefront of promoting this therapy in the UK through attending, exhibiting and speaking at events across the country and through working with leading charities and dog associations, such as, Guide Dogs for the Blind, as well as by treating high profile performance dogs, such as Crufts winners and the UK agility team.

We are now expanding our area of work into developing our extremely popular and very successful Galen Natural Progression, where we work with dogs to develop good foundational development; the success we have seen from these programmes is astounding and all Galen Myotherapists are receiving training to be able to replicate this within their own area.

The Galen Diploma is an extremely popular course with a growing number of exception candidates all electing for the external accreditation and the level of tuition that can only be supplied by Tutors who specialise within the canine world. With this high level of student the very best graduates from the diploma course are invited to become Galen Myotherapists and provide the high quality Galen service from their privately owned centres across the UK.

Watch out for the Advanced Techniques Course to be launched in 2010!

Galen hopes to continue to grow in the years to come by further increasing it’s network of Galen Myotherapists, so as to bring support to any dogs in the UK that are suffering unnecessarily. Find out how to become a member of the team.

Our workshops are the original one-day canine massage workshops and are designed to educate the handler not on how to massage their dog but also to understand more about how their dog moves and how their dog works. These are increasingly going ‘on the road’ to specialist clubs and organisations to fit with their own requirements.

Leading veterinary surgeons have welcomed the Galen Therapy Centre and its work;

Arun Veterinary Group is highly committed to providing a high standard of care to all the animals we treat. We are constantly striving to improve and expand upon the range of services we offer our clients, in particular complementary and natural therapies.

With this in mind, we are delighted to announce the introduction of our consultant Myotherapist Julia Robertson of Galen Therapy Centre.