Animal Assisted Therapy AAT - ESA

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Bring your pet. You can borrow your family's or close friend's, if you don't have one yet. Or perhaps you could volunteer at an animal rescue for an hour. 1 month recommended (4 weekly sessions a month), and you can start with experiencing your first week.

This type of work and transformational breakthrough is best/most effective and faster in group settings, as you will learn immensely from others’ hands-on experience. We will process what happened in your past, change the status quo with a powerful customized plan/strategy, practice/role play for the future of your dreams. You will be given proven human-pet/animal bond behavioral and communication tools to use in your daily life.

Heart Rescue - Success From the Heart

Virtually everything you need to learn in life, you can learn from your pet. As a psychologist and certified life and business coach, I have worked with Oscar-winning celebrities, Olympic athletes, bestselling authors, world-renowned speakers, Fortune 10 company’s CEOs and entrepreneurs at every level of success, from startup to those running hundreds-of-million-dollar companies.

99% of the time, clients come to me because they want to make more money or want more time off or both.

Discovering that they can achieve this by listening to and caring for an animal usually comes as a surprise.

It is the simplest ideas and the easiest paths that often seem hard to believe. And yet they are the surest way to success and fulfillment. Everything relates to everything, and so, everything is a reflection and extension of yourself. Money—having it or not having it—is a result of the thoughts and beliefs you hold inside of you, consciously or not. Animals are mirrors, reflecting to you your anxieties, fears, frustrations, concerns, joys and so on. Have you noticed that, when you are anxious, the animals around you are anxious? When you are calm, your animals are calm. Animals soak up the essence of who you are—your thoughts, beliefs, struggles and desires—and show you the truth of who you are in transformational power of animals to the work I already do with humans.

There are about eight main life areas—money, career, relationships, health, education, environment, play and charity—and your pets will help you succeed in all of them. Recall that I believe animals act as a mirror, and that they remind you of the child within you, the time when you made heart-centered choices.

These benefits alone would be enough to motivate most people to pay special attention to their pets and all that pets can teach humans. And yet there is much more that animals have to give us.

Taking time to love, feed or exercise your pet, or with your pet, enables you to focus on one thing and one thing only: your relationship with your pet. When I am walking my dog, or just sitting with my cat and dog and giving them my attention, this is one of the few times I’m able to stop my mind from racing and

feel pure bliss. When my clients are stressed, I always tell them to do some sort of art, or movement such as yoga or dance, or meditation with their pets.

Your pet also is fully one with you and does not leave you unattended or out of sight. I always smile when I am inside a store and have left my pet momentarily tied outside or in the car (with open windows) and I peek outside and I see those two eyes completely, one hundred percent hyper-focused on me. The world could come to an end and those eyes would still be on their human.

The power of focus!

It is scientifically proven that animals aid in reducing and often eliminating stress. Pet owners live longer and are generally happier than non-pet-owners. In this way, animals help you improve all life areas. When you slow down and stay focused on one aspect of your life, then you are better able to make real and lasting positive change. Have you ever been able to remain sad when you look into an animal’s eyes?

Humans are, by definition, animals. Now, if animals don’t stress about money, why should we humans stress? Animals stay in the present moment and never

stress about money, knowing and trusting they will always be okay.

I invite you to pay attention to the animals in your life. Are your pets happy? Playful? Do they follow their training? Or do they seem nervous or scared? Do they make messes in the house and generally cause trouble? Or, if you do not have pets, how do animals react to you when you encounter them? Are they over-excited, or calm and loving? In my opinion, how animals behave around you and relate to you gives you clues as to how you perceive yourself and how you are perceived by the world.

I have witnessed that, beyond the mirror, animals remind you who you really are, the person you are yearning to reconnect with, the person who, like so many abandoned animals on this earth, needs to be rescued. Animals see the real you, the child with eyes full of hope and a pure and positive heart. Our pets have kept their innocence. They know what matters most in life: unconditional love, healthy food, clean drinking water, plenty of exercise, restful

sleep, constant companionship and abundant play. They remind you that this is the true, balanced path toward living a fulfilling life.

I am an immigrant. I came to the United States from Italy and made it on my own. It wasn’t easy. Because I was so far from my family, my pets became my family. When I felt discouraged, my pets kept me balanced and helped me stay on track. I’m highly grateful for them.

Over the years, I have become more and more interested in how animals help us heal, help us grow, help us live happy and balanced lives. I began to study the human-animal bond and wrote my PhD dissertation on the subject, while helping my clients create the lives they desired. Today, I apply my knowledge about the healing and unexpected turns, as long as we go for it and don’t hold back, life will reward us beautifully for our courage and for taking action.

That has been my beautiful experience.

What if you loved all humans as your pet loves you? What if you loved yourself as your pet loves you? How would your life be different if you loved without condition?

Again, animals remind us what is important: play, being present, love. Animals don’t think about the future. They don’t worry about tomorrow. They are happy for no reason! In our pursuit of success and money, we lose sight of the simple things and stop living. Most Western societies measure success with

money. I am an international person with two passports, Italian and American. I have seen, met and befriended hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. In my experience, some of the happiest and healthiest people are not the richest. I have met some unhealthy and lonely monetarily rich people. The happiest and healthiest people in my life take time to smell the roses, accept what is and continue loving themselves and other beings, no matter what! They are balanced, and I believe in balance.

At the start of this chapter, I said that ninety-nine percent of my clients come to me because they want to make more money.

They come to me in a state of blaming anything and everyone except themselves. With coaching, they realize that they are solely responsible for their financial results and all their other life results and that when the other areas of their life are out of in balance, it prevents them from making more money. As they start working on themselves and open up to nature, to animals, to the child within them, they begin to know themselves better and make better

decisions—decisions from the heart, from a loving place instead of from a place of darkness.

Again, how we relate to one thing is how we relate to everything.

People who can’t relate well to the most innocent creatures on Earth ought to look inside themselves and ask why. Why are they impatient? Why do they discriminate? Why are they angry? What if you loved yourself as your pet loves you?

People who care for pets tend to be more grateful. They learn this from their pets. Animals have always shown people gratitude for feeding them, for saving them, for paying attention to them.

They never hold back affection and constantly show appreciation.

Can we say the same about our own actions, or about the humans in our lives? I can’t always say so. Gratitude is a key to success in all areas. And yet we often forget to express our thanks for the simple pleasures, such as for being alive.

Pets love unconditionally. They don’t hold grudges. They love everyone—poor or rich. They don’t care about material possessions. They live for their owner’s affection. When I am with my pets, I feel nothing but unconditional love. I feel it from my animals to me, and I feel it toward my animals. In human

relationships, unconditional love is hard to come by. Many people place conditions on love. They withhold love when they don’t feel safe, or if they feel someone has not earned their devotion, or as punishment. Worse, they do it to themselves.

My pets taught me unconditional love and unconditional commitment. I had never experienced it before. Growing up in the countryside in the Lake Region of Northern Italy, I have fostered or adopted the animals nobody wanted. Born after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, some of them were deformed. Although they didn’t look like the ideal pets I had always dreamed of—the purebred, perfectly designed pets so many people want—inevitably, they won my heart and taught me the meaning of true love. In this way, they become ideal and perfect to me.

This is my life lesson: How many times do we want the perfect career, the perfect partner? And we wait and wait and don’t take action. We let life slip away waiting for the illusion of perfection. From my pets I have learned that, if there is such a thing as perfection, it is in the journey.

If people can’t convey love, tranquility and peace to an animal, they certainly can’t offer it to other humans.

In my life, the best lessons have come from nature. I have seen animals win the hearts of fearful people, negative people, and transform them for the better. Animals provide valuable lessons—for free! When you rescue a pet without a home or family—through foster or adoption—you rescue your own heart,

you rescue yourself. Some animals can be vegetarian, which makes it very affordable to provide for them. Mine are! If you don’t have a pet, or can’t foster or rescue one for some reason, please visit and volunteer at an animal sanctuary. Spend time with animals and in nature. Why not let animals teach you what you need to learn? Then be ready to fall in love with all other beings and watch miracles happen!...

Psychologists may receive requests from patients and others for a letter stating they would benefit from having an emotional support animal.

In regard to ESA, emotional support animals, a service animal is defined under the ADA as a dog that has been individually trained to do work or perform

tasks for someone with a disability, and that the work performed must be directly related to the disability.

A psychologist's letter is stating that the patient’s diagnosis substantially impacts a life activity.

The History of AAT and AAT Principles

AAT Competencies and Multicultural Considerations

Animals as Co-Therapists: Selection, Behavioral, and Training Considerations

Introduction to Animal Facilitated Psychotherapy

Animals as Co-Therapists: Blending Animal Interventions with a Range of Professional Theories

Animals as Co-Therapists: Exploring Animal Assisted Interventions Across Professions, Settings, and Populations

Developing Treatment Plans and Tracking Outcomes

Animal Assisted Therapy Overview and Experiential Examples

The History of AAT and AAT Principles

Define the Human-Animal Bond, its importance in AATC and its effect in human interaction

Explain the rationale for Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI), Animal Assisted Activities (AAA) and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT)

Describe the theoretical framework/Biophilia hypothesis for Animal Assisted Therapy

AAT Competencies and Multicultural Considerations

Explain the ACA and Pet Partners Core Competencies for AAT-C

Describe various ethics, laws, risks, and multi-cultural considerations that must be factored into the practice of AAT

List the key elements of triadic relationships and being your animal’s best advocate in an AAT setting

Animals as Co-Therapists: Selection, Behavioral, and Training Considerations

Explain how to understand and know an animal’s temperament, how different animals signal their needs and/or stress levels, and how you can to facilitate the animal’s socialization, desensitization, and comfort in preparing them for work in ATT

Identify how to objectively assess an animals’ suitability, strengths and limitations for the therapy setting and how to select the appropriate training for you and your animal for AAT

Identify key elements of animal care and advocacy, and the topic of Zoonosis and its implication in AAT

Animals as Co-Therapists: Blending Animal Interventions with a Range of Professional Theories

Explain attachment theory, how an animal as a co-therapist can provide a corrective attachment experience for your clients, and the different means by which the human-animal interaction can elicit unexpected vulnerability and disclosures in others

Match AAI’s with a variety of evidence-based counseling theories, explain how you would incorporate AAI’s with your theoretical orientation to support the population with which you choose to work

Describe how to assess the suitability, amenability, and related safety concerns of each client to animal-assisted interventions in counseling

Animals as Co-Therapists: Exploring Animal-Assisted Interventions Across Professions, Settings, and Populations

Explain key elements that factor into the effective matching of AAIs with clients’ needs/goals and how AAT can increase empathy in clients

Identify how AAT can be utilized in a variety of settings that include: group, crisis, trauma, ADHD, autism, speech and physical/occupational therapy, anxiety, grief/loss, substance use, aging, medical and correctional settings, including examples of specific animal-assisted interventions

List specific health considerations that must be factored into client interaction with animals in a medical setting

Explain the “inner Zoo” and how to have animals as co-therapists in Group Settings.

Developing Treatment Plans and Tracking Outcomes

Explain how to write a treatment plan with goals and objectives utilizing AAT

Describe various AAIs that relate to building empathy, developing emotional regulation skills and client self-esteem, creating a corrective attachment experience, and working with anxious or depressed clients or those who have ADHD

Explain the importance of using outcome measures in AAT

Identify the different types of outcome measures that can be used to measure the effectiveness of AAT interventions

Animal-Assisted Therapy Overview and Experiential Examples

Explain the Biophilia Hypothesis and its connection to the Human-Animal Bond

Describe the Psychosocial, Emotional, Physiological Benefits of AAT

Identify the dangers and risks associated with practicing AAT

Describe the competencies necessary to ethically and effectively practice AAT

Group Therapist

Dr. Pezzini's celebrity, high profile executive, patients and clients call her the high energy, scientific, "Dr. Tony Robbins". She is at a 1 stop online shop. All in 1, you get Quad Power: a. Psycho-Therapy b. Applied Organizational (Work) Psychology c. Professional Certified Coaching d. Motivational Interviewing Hypnosis & KAP Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. Dr. P. has provided over 25 years of successful pet/animal, movement, music & art healing modalities, to people from all walks of life and from over the world. She is looking forward to helping you live your bright life!

Her experience is vast; she holds a PhD and many certifications. She'll quickly identify what you need and what approach helps you best and tailor her practice to your specific wants and styles.

Dr. P. believes in your potential! She has successfully worked with more than hundreds of thousands of clients, from anywhere. Any age, status, background, occupation, including celebrities. She hopes you too are committed to your betterment, improvement, and fulfillment.

Dr. P. always provides hands on mindset, behavioral and brain resources and tools. Dr. P. recommends both, group and 1:1 sessions, for best, faster, and long-lasting results.

For a free consultation, contact her, at your earliest convenience. You will be happy you did.

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E. Pezzini

E. Pezzini is a therapist in San Jose, California specializing in career counseling, couples counseling, group therapy, life coaching, work stress, and financial stress.

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