Psychiatric Service Dog (PSD) Letters in Texas

What is a psychiatric service dog?

A PSD is a service animal under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Unlike an emotional support animal, a PSD is trained to perform specific, identifiable tasks related to a psychiatric disability — interrupting panic attacks, providing deep-pressure therapy, delivering medication reminders, or guiding its handler to safety during episodes of disorientation.

PSD vs. ESA: the differences that matter

• Training: a PSD must be task-trained; an ESA provides therapeutic benefit through its presence alone.
• Public access: PSDs may accompany their handlers in restaurants, stores, and other public places under the ADA. ESAs may not.
• Air travel: trained PSDs fly in the cabin free of charge with the required DOT forms. Most airlines now treat ESAs as pets.
• Housing: both PSDs and ESAs are protected under the Fair Housing Act.

What a PSD letter provides

A PSD letter from a licensed mental health professional documents that you have a psychiatric disability and that a task-trained service dog forms part of your treatment. It serves as strong supporting documentation for housing requests and useful context for airline DOT forms — though no letter substitutes for the dog's actual task training.

How our process works

• Book a confidential telehealth evaluation with a Texas-licensed clinician.
• Your clinician assesses whether a psychiatric service dog is clinically appropriate for you.
• If approved, you receive your signed PSD letter by email within 10–15 minutes — and you're charged only after approval.

A note on honesty: we evaluate and document — we do not train dogs, and we never issue letters that are not clinically warranted. PSD task training may be completed by a professional trainer or owner-trained under ADA rules.