Last summer, Dr. Hannah Allen-Miller completed her dissertation at the Michigan School of Professional Psychology entitled “Animal Assisted Psychotherapy: An Exploration of The Adult Client’s Experience of Individual Psychotherapy with the Assistance of a Dog”. Her research included intensive interviews following a narrative model of qualitative research to co-create meaning from the stories of the participants.

The goal of this project was to find out how the dog influenced the client’s experience.  Eight themes were identified through a detailed data analysis of the complex interviews and listed from most commonly identified themes. Read the article for details regarding this insightful paper.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/decoding-your-pet/201501/what-if-your-therapist-had-dog-in-the-office