Make Your Dog a Service Dog
Get ready to qualify your dog as a Psychiatric Service Animal (PSA). Start with a quick online assessment and connect with a licensed mental health professional to see if a PSA is right for you.
- Takes only a few minutes to get started.
- Trusted by 325,000+ pet parents
How to Make Your Dog a Service Dog
Complete the Online Assessment
Answer a few questions about your needs, your symptoms, and the support your dog provides (your dog must be task-trained – we can help with that!).
Step 01
Connect With a Licensed Mental Health Professional
A licensed provider reviews your information and evaluates whether you may have a disability that a Psychiatric Service Animal could help you manage.
Step 02
Complete Your Individual Evaluation
Your provider conducts an individual clinical evaluation to determine whether a Psychiatric Service Animal is appropriate for you.
Step 03
Receive Your Documentation
When clinically appropriate, your provider issues documentation supporting your disability-related need for a Psychiatric Service Animal.
Step 04
How to Make Your Dog a Service Dog
Complete the Online Assessment
Answer a few questions about your needs, your symptoms, and the support your dog provides (your dog must be task-trained – we can help with that!).
Step 01
Connect With a Licensed Mental Health
Professional A licensed provider reviews your information and evaluates whether you may have a disability that a Psychiatric Service Animal could help you manage.
Step 02
Complete Your Individual Evaluation
Your provider conducts an individual clinical evaluation to determine whether a Psychiatric Service Animal is appropriate for you.
Step 03
Receive Your Documentation if Approved
When clinically appropriate, your provider issues documentation supporting your disability-related need for a Psychiatric Service Animal.
Step 04
Why Choose American Service Pets
Getting Your Dog Recognized as a Service Dog, Done Right
A Psychiatric Service Animal is a service dog that is specifically task trained to help a person with a psychiatric disability. American Service Pets connects you with a licensed mental health professional in your state who reviews your needs and determines whether a PSA is right for you — then gives you secure access to your documentation if approved.
Evaluation by a licensed mental health professional
Individual clinical evaluation of your needs
Documentation you can access if approved
No fake registries and no "instant" service-dog status
Know the Difference
Is Your Dog a Psychiatric Service Animal or an Emotional Support Animal?
What a Psychiatric Service Animal Means for You
Because a Psychiatric Service Animal is a service dog under the ADA, it carries the same protections as any other service dog:
- Access to your documentation upon approval
- Protected under federal housing laws
- Protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act, with full public access rights
- Permitted in the cabin of a plane (when you complete the required U.S. DOT service animal form)
A Psychiatric Service Animal’s status comes from a genuine disability-related need — not from a certificate or a registry. American Service Pets connects you with licensed providers so your PSA is legitimate.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Start by completing an assessment and connecting with a licensed mental health professional who can evaluate whether you may qualify for a Psychiatric Service Animal — a service dog for a psychiatric disability. The provider reviews your individual needs and determines whether documentation is clinically appropriate.
No registry makes a dog a service dog. There is no official federal service dog registration, and the Department of Justice does not recognize online registrations, ID cards, or certificates as proof of service-animal status under the ADA. What matters is a genuine disability-related need, confirmed through an evaluation with a licensed professional. Some handlers choose to carry a voluntary ID card for convenience, but it is optional and does not create any legal rights.
Possibly. If your anxiety rises to the level of a disability, you may qualify for a Psychiatric Service Animal. Start the assessment and a licensed provider can help determine whether a PSA is right for you.
An emotional support animal provides comfort and is protected in housing, but has no public access rights. A Psychiatric Service Animal is a task-trained service dog under the ADA, which grants the full public access rights that an ESA does not have.
No. There is no certification or registration requirement to be a service animal under the ADA. A dog's status is based on a genuine disability-related need — not a certificate, registration, or ID card.
Any breed can qualify, and the dog should be able to behave appropriately in public. What matters most is that you have a disability-related need and your dog is task trained — start the assessment to find out whether you may qualify for a Psychiatric Service Animal.
A provider evaluation and documentation help confirm your disability-related need. This can be useful when requesting housing accommodation and, together with the required U.S. DOT form, when flying with your service dog in the cabin.
Ready When You Are
Take the First Step Today
Find out whether your dog may qualify for a Psychiatric Service Animal through an individual evaluation with a licensed mental health professional.
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