Virtual Consultations

Do you want to become a therapy dog-handler team at your workplace or volunteer setting?

Do you want to start an animal-assisted therapy or education program at your workplace?

We can guide you through the process…

Tilly’s Place can support you at all stages of becoming a therapy dog/handler team with your current or future dog and/or in starting a therapy animal program at your school, facility, or private practice. Scheduling is flexible to meet your needs.

Our staff has worked extensively with professionals/students in OT, PT, SLP, social work, and literacy, as well as administrators, to incorporate therapy dogs into the university, therapeutic, and educational settings.

Consultation services may include:

• Providing evidence from the literature supporting the incorporation of animals into your setting/with your population

• Speaking with your supervisors/administration about professionalization of the field of animal-assisted interventions

• Guidance with

  • How to select a potential therapy dog

  • Therapy animal training, including exposure to multiple environments and people 

  • The process to become certified as an Animal-Assisted Intervention Specialist

  • The process to become a volunteer with your dog

  • Therapy dog/handler team evaluations

  • Safety and liability insurance

  • Setting up the environment for success

  • Animal welfare practices

• Ideas for animal-assisted therapy and/or animal-assisted education programming within your field of practice/population served