What is Animal-Assisted Therapy?

Therapy with animals is an innovative approach, merging therapy into the natural and animal environments, appropriate for children 6 years and older. We welcome teens, young adults, and adults to enter a safe, supportive, and judgement-free zone, where they naturally learn and grow.

The Benefits of Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy

Through interactive activities with animals, sensitive souls develop effective emotional regulation and communication, coping and social skills, and gain feelings of self-mastery. Our goal is for them to leave our sessions standing taller, communicating assertively, setting healthy boundaries, and believing in themselves.

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Why Therapy with Animals?

Animals have partnered with humans for hundreds of thousands of years. Through this co-evolution, they developed the innate ability to read and reflect back our physical, emotional, mental, and energetic states. They can sense when we need some extra comfort and gently point out and hold us accountable for our emotional, thought, and relational patterns. The animals want to authentically connect and offer profound learning regarding how we show up in the world and in our relationships. Working with them as mutual partners in the therapeutic process deeply enhances the therapy experience.

Did you Know?

Research* shows that being around animals can:

  • Decrease anxiety and stress.

  • Decrease depression and loneliness.

  • Decrease blood pressure.

  • Increase oxytocin (aka, the "love hormone" that's linked to empathy and generosity).

* Source: Fine, 2010

“I’ve experienced various therapies, but none like this!”

Animal and Pet-Assisted Therapy Can Support the Following:

 
 

Interested in Animal-Assisted Therapy in Sonoma County? 

Please contact us to schedule your free consultation.

Wish Fulfilling Tree offers animal-assisted therapy in Sebastopol in Sonoma County, CA. We serve the surrounding areas such as Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Windsor, Healdsburg, Cloverdale, and Rohnert Park.