SPOTLIGHT ON SERVICE ANIMALS

What you will learn:

This seminar is designed for fellow pyschotherapists to learn how to support psychotherapy clients who might benefit from working with a service animal.

During this session, you will learn the differences between:

• Guide Dogs
• Therapy Animals
• Emotional Support Animals
• Service Animals

You will learn how to valuably support your clients in acquiring a service animal, and how to provide the appropriate clinical documentation.

Course cost is $50 + HST for a total of $56.50. This video training is approximately one hour long.

Please note: This course is designed to be taken by psychotherapists licensed through the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) only.

Liane Wood is a Registered Psychotherapist with a private practice in Belleville Ontario Canada. She is also a psychiatric service dog handler and has been involved with working around service animals and therapy animals for over 5 years.

She has seen and experienced the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to these types of animals whether it’s clients/patients trying to get support from their health practitioners where the practitioner may not have enough knowledge in this area, trying to navigate the process of obtaining an animal which is often riddled with hurdles, or working with putting together the required documentation for public access for animals and handlers that maximizes effectiveness without jeopardizing or compromising an individual’s private health information.

In this video, Liane is taking the combination of her work as a psychotherapist with her experiences with service animals to help other psychotherapists understand the complexities of supporting clients well when service animals are needed.