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The benefits that animal companionship provides for your emotional and mental wellbeing are enormous. Animal-assisted therapies are a type of psychotherapy that incorporates animals into peoples mental health treatment plans. People worldwide rely on animals like dogs, cats, and even horses to help them cope with acute and chronic mental health challenges.

Whether you are located in downtown Charlotte, Ballantyne West, Cherry, Commonwealth, or even Cotswold, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

How Can Animal-Assisted Therapy Help?

Animal-assisted therapy can help you in various ways, but here are some of the most common benefits:

  • Companionship to reduce feelings of loneliness.
  • Feeling less stressed, agitated, or anxious.
  • Self-awareness as you see animals reflect your emotional state.
  • Learning to set new boundaries.
  • Overcoming fear.
  • Developing trust.

Animal-assisted therapy can also help with physical health, offering such benefits as reduced perception of pain and improved cardiovascular health.

Interested in learning more about how animals improve our lives? Read more from licensed therapist Dr. Beverly Pedroche about the 5 lessons learned from her dog.

Experience the Benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy

Deciding that you want to seek animal-assisted therapy is a gigantic step, and finding a quality therapist who specializes in animal-assisted therapy can prove to be challenging. Luckily, our team at Mental Health Match is here to help you find a qualified animal-assisted therapist in no time! Start by browsing experts below or by using our free therapist matching tool.

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Our approach is focused on finding the best fit therapist in our practice and then using the best fit modality to partner with you to reach your goal and vision.

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I like the opportunity of serving people from different background and whose needs are also different. I like holding sessions to break the problems into parts to find solutions collaboratively.

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Explore the root of your behaviors like: negative thinking, failed relationships, caring for parents, poor health, or family dysfunction. Together we will discover ways that transform your thinking and ways to becoming a brand new hopeful person.

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I believe your strength is your success, despite what you've been through. I build rapport, identify with you and personalize your experience. I use a holistic faith based approach to affirm your healing through laughter, exercise, and diet.

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Achieve breakthrough where you seem to find yourself stuck. We will push past previous barriers and live a more fulfilled, meaningful life.

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I utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change your thoughts which changes how you feel and thus changes your actions. I use Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to teach skills to manage challenging emotions.

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Explore your patterns surrounding anxiety and perfectionism and work to create patterns more in line with your values and goals. We will also work together to learn coping skills to help manage anxiety and/or OCD.

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I treat anxiety, OCD, and perfectionism with evidenced-based approaches such as ERP, ACT, and DBT. All three of these approaches focus in identifying unhelpful thought patterns, responses, and help teach healthier ways to cope in line with your goals

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