Do you feel uncomfortable and unsure how to respond when clients ask you to write a letter certifying their pet as an Emotional Support Animal (ESA)?
Do you worry that some clients are simply looking to bring their pets into situations where they wouldn’t normally be allowed? Or fear it’s not even within your scope of practice to determine whether an animal has a therapeutic effect on your clients?
Requests for ESA letters are surging, but guidelines, protocols and available education for therapists isn’t keeping up. How can you ensure that you’re considering the right legal, ethical and practical issues before writing one?
Diana Sebzda, LPC has been a licensed counselor for over 16 years and spent 15 years as a veterinary technician. Using her unique insight as both a mental health and animal care professional, she’s guided many individuals through the use of service animals and emotional support animals.
Watch her for this timely 3-hour training and get the latest details and guidance you need so you can:
Don’t miss this chance to get the answers you’ve been seeking on one of the fastest growing questions facing clinicians today!
Purchase now!
This self-study program consists of 3.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary by country and local regulatory bodies. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your local regulatory organization to determine specific eligibility and requirements.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Emotional Support Animals (6.3 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| extra-handout-helpful-links (74 KB) | 1 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| extra-handout-helpful-links - French (74 KB) | 1 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Emotional Support Animals - French (6.3 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| extra-handout-helpful-links - Italian (74 KB) | 1 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Emotional Support Animals - Italian (6.3 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| extra-handout-helpful-links - German (74 KB) | 1 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Emotional Support Animals - German (6.3 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| extra-handout-helpful-links - Spanish (74 KB) | 1 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Emotional Support Animals - Spanish (6.3 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Diane Sebzda, LPC, FT, is a licensed professional counselor with betterhelp.com, where she provides individual counseling for those coping with grief, anticipatory grief, and pet loss. In addition to 22 years of grief counseling experience, Diana also has over 15 years of experience as a veterinary technician where she’s witnessed the impacts of end of life and pet loss firsthand. Diana has been published in Healthy Pet Magazine and is a Fellow in Thanatology (FT) with the Association for Death Education and Counseling (where she is co-chair of their Pet Loss Networking Group). Diana earned her MA degree in Applied Clinical Psychology from William Patterson University.
Access never expires for this product.
Emotional Support Animal (ESA) vs. Service Animal (SA)
Differences regarding landlords, airlines, owners and animals
Typical reasons for requests
Therapeutic role and issuing a diagnosis
Ethical and legal issues to be aware of from a clinician’s viewpoint
Stance of ADA, ACA, APA regarding use of these animals
Review of an ESA letter
New transportation/airline laws regarding ESAs
Research, risks and treatment limitations
Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to info@pesi.eu.
Please wait ...
