Get your official emotional support animal letter here​

As Pennsylvania’s leading solution for approving emotional support animals for housing and travel, we’ve got you – and your pet covered.

Get your official emotional support animal letter here​

As Pennsylvania’s leading solution for approving emotional support animals for housing and travel, we’ve got you – and your pet covered.

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The benefits of getting an ESA letter with Makin Wellness

Get your pet approved as an emotional support animal (ESA)

Federal law guarantees your right to have your pet always with you. The Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA) ensures your ESA rights in any house or apartment without pet fees. Approval for your well-behaved pet as an ESA boosts your confidence at home, in public, and during travel. Restaurants, stores, rideshares, and more welcome well-behaved ESAs.

Emotional support animal qualifying conditions

FAQs about emotional support animals

  • Your ESA will support you.
  • They are an animal of your choice.
  • They will love you unconditionally.
  • Proven to help calm those with anxiety and phobias (among many other debilitating conditions)

An ESA letter will allow your animal to be considered a “reasonable accommodation” in living situations where they would otherwise not be allowed. Thanks to the Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA), people can travel with ESA’s without any extra charge and are not required to place the animal in the cargo hold. It will also give your comfort companion the right to wear a support vest.

Most support animals are dogs or cats. However, other animals are accepted. Exotic animals can sometimes pose potential dangers. So like you, your ESA will undergo an individualized assessment to assure they pose no health or safety threats to others. Don’t count them out though! In York Haven, PA an alligator by the name of Wally is registered right now.

A Makin Wellness counselor will work with you and your ESA to acquire the proper documentation under Federal and Pennsylvania law. Your letter is a prescription from your mental health professional stating recommending the need for your comfort animal. This letter will include:

  • Your diagnosed mental health condition or mental health-related disability
  • A statement explaining that the emotional support animal accompanying you is necessary for your mental health and/or treatment
    The breed of your ESA animal
  • The issuer of the letter is a licensed mental health professional, and you are under their treatment or care for a mental health disability
  • The issuer’s license number, type of license, the license issue date, and the state or jurisdiction where it was issued.

It is not required by law for your Emotional Support Animal to wear a vest, but it will cause fewer issues for you if your friend is recognized as a support animal. Just remember, public establishments are not required by law to allow emotional support animals within their establishment.

No. Emotional support animals, comfort animals, and therapy dogs are not service animals under Title II and Title III of the ADA.

Emotional Support Animals

  • ESAs do not require individual training
  • Emotional Support Animals are here to provide you with a sense of safety and companionship.
  • Public establishments are not required by law to allow ESAs as they are not considered “Service Animals”

Service Animals

  • A service animal is any dog individually trained and certified to perform beneficial tasks for an individual person with physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disabilities.

Schedule your emotional support animal evaluation today.