Your Complete Resource on Psychiatric Service Dogs

Psychiatric service dogs are a type of service dog that is fully protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Psychiatric service dogs perform tasks for people who have mental health disabilities like depression, chronic anxiety, PTSD, autism and learning disorders

Psychiatric service dogs can perform an incredible variety of tasks. These are just a few examples: providing deep pressure therapy during moments of crisis, retrieving medication, grounding and reorienting their handlers and interrupting and redirecting psychiatric episodes.

Psychiatric service dogs have all the rights other service dog owners have under the ADA. That means they must be accommodated in public venues closed off to pets (like stores and restaurants). PSDs can also live in no-pets housing and travel in the cabin of planes without charge.