@Emily Smith what I share with you is for educational purposes only and is not considered professional counseling or therapy. 

Emotional support animals have been known to assist disabled individuals with severe depression, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and many other emotional and psychiatric disabilities.If a person with a disability needs to use an assistance animal, he or she must first make the request to his or her housing provider or housing board.

I am also a COTA (certified occupational therapy assistant) and have been one for 7 years.

Hello @Kobi Gur,We lived in Augusta for 5 years after Physical Therapy school and fell in love with the area.

All rescues, in fact my pit is a small dog therapy dog - she helps rehab abused dogs of the smaller kind. 

After 6 months of hearing that, I finally got an assistant and I was able to focus on my therapy practice and leverage my time.  

In less than 2 minutes I Google searched "therapy animal certification", clicked on a link, and was all the way through the process and to the payment page to register ANY dog as an "emotional support animal".

Personally, I post on facebook when I am done with a rehab, sometimes I show how horrible a property is so that everyone knows what I am doing.We have a "Wine Therapy" every month to network with friends where I happen to let them know that I am doing real estate and if they happen to have a 401k from a past job, they can get a fixed rate of return on their money that they have invested with me.I have a small REIA every month where I give other investors some knowledge.

I thought about sending her a bill for all of the therapy.

fileticket=lhyaA_hRAoE%3d&tabid=268Definitions of Service AnimalThe DOJ’s new ADA rules define“service animal†as any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.The new rules specifythat “theprovision of emotional support, well-being, comfort, or companionship do not constitute work or tasks for the purposes of this definition.†Thus, trained dogs are the only species of animals that may qualify as service animals under the ADA (there is a separate provision regarding miniature horses) and emotional support animals are expressly precluded from qualifying as service animals.Read the few pages carefully.And this, at http://www.state.ia.us/government/crc/docs/Factsheet%20Service%20Animals.pdfService and Emotional Support Animals under the FairHousing Act and the Americans with Disabilities ActRead the information carefully and get more information.A service dog can go just about anyplace open to the public.