Psych Dog Charlotte

11/11/2016

Good morning everyone! It's been ages since I've made a "grounding" video with Taylor so I wanted to do so for those who may not have seen them when she was 6 months or 2 years old. This counts as a task under the ADA and if you're having a panic attack or dissociation, the tacticle pressure this does can help you get better than taking a pill!. Enjoy! I hope this task can help ya'll with service dogs get grounded and settle down during panic attacks. - Darryl and Taylor!

We made one of these years ago but decided it was time to update it since there are no many variations of this technique. If you have PTSD or need to get " g...

06/29/2013

Hello everyone! Just a quick update - PLEASE go to our new page as "Psych Dog Charlotte" has expanded to a national level now. The only activity on this page will be to tell everyone to join our new page - Psych Dogs America. Thank you much for you support!

06/10/2013

If you haven't heard, Psych Dog Charlotte has grown!!! We will now be known as Psych Dogs America as we go to a national level! It's thanks to YOU and your support that we are able to do this - thank you! We have 377 people who "like" our page and I'm hoping that you will "like" our new page since we will be phasing out the use of this one. So please, click on the link below and then "like" our new page after it comes up! Thank you so very much for your continued support!

For those looking for psychiatric service dogs we help navigate through the laws, help educate about the process of a dog becoming a service dog, the laws regarding psychiatric service dogs and we can sometimes provide a referral for a trainer in the Charlotte, NC area. For mental health and health care professionals we provide training and information on the studies showing how psychiatric service dogs help patients function better than psychiatric medications, inform them on tasks that dogs can be trained to do and inform them on the laws surrounding psychiatric service dogs.

06/10/2013

**THE LIFE OF A 4 YEAR OLD BOY IS AT STAKE!! ** It's sad that this dog has still not been found but now that WCCB Charlotte has done a story and our friend Morgan Fogarty is reaching out to the community, we truly hope and pray this amazing dog is found. PLEASE SHARE THIS!!! YOU NEVER KNOW someone that sees it on your page could be the one to find it. If it was your 4 year old child's life at stake, you would appreciate all the help you could get - even if it's passing along a facebook update so PLEASE HELP!! We need to find this amazing animal alive so it can be reunited with the 4 year old that it lives for helping. Breaks my heart

The service dog could mean the difference between lifeand death for his owner.

06/07/2013

Good morning everyone! If you missed it last night, we have some great news - Psych Dog Charlotte is EXPANDING! We are now Psych Dogs America! Thank you for your support the past 21 months in allowing this growth! In order to keep supporting us and following us, please go to our new page (the link is below) so that you can "like" the page and still follow us as we will be phasing out the use of this page. Thank you all so much for your help! We hope you are as excited as we are!!

For those looking for psychiatric service dogs we help navigate through the laws, help educate about the process of a dog becoming a service dog, the laws regarding psychiatric service dogs and we can sometimes provide a referral for a trainer in the Charlotte, NC area. For mental health and health care professionals we provide training and information on the studies showing how psychiatric service dogs help patients function better than psychiatric medications, inform them on tasks that dogs can be trained to do and inform them on the laws surrounding psychiatric service dogs.

06/07/2013

hello everyone! Great news!!! Psych Dog Charlotte is expanding!! To celebrate our expansion we are renaming our charity "Psych Dogs America". PLEASE click on the link and "like" our new page. (don't just "like" this post, go to the page and "like" the new page!) We hope all of our supports from our beginnings as Psych Dog Charlotte continue to support us and SPREAD THE WORD as we have HUGE things on the horizon! from the bottom of our hearts, thank u for all of ur support over the last two years. ALL OF YOU have helped and we wouldn't be here without each and every single one of you. We'd also like to thank a few others who have contributed in ways we will never be able to repay with their support: Morgan Fogarty and WCCB Charlotte, Dan Reed, MTek, Frankie Aldino and Halo, Jill and everyone at Saving Grace Farm, Chad and a few others.... you have supported us and we would not be here without your help. THANK YOU for helping us grow and for helping us help dozens of people across the country live better lives with psychiatric service dogs. We've come a loooong way in less than 21 months, but just wait...bigger things are coming!!

For those looking for psychiatric service dogs we help navigate through the laws, help educate about the process of a dog becoming a service dog, the laws regarding psychiatric service dogs and we can sometimes provide a referral for a trainer in the Charlotte, NC area. For mental health and health care professionals we provide training and information on the studies showing how psychiatric service dogs help patients function better than psychiatric medications, inform them on tasks that dogs can be trained to do and inform them on the laws surrounding psychiatric service dogs.

06/04/2013

FINALLY, people are starting to "get it!!!" Our partners at Saving Grace Farm, and member of the board of directors of my charity Psych Dog Charlotte ( Dr. Tia Konzer and Tricia West and myself and my brother) have ALL experienced this. it is simply magical. but since there are no "horse companies" having money to walk into medical offices offering vacations it's never heard of and downplayed by "big pharma". Thank you Jill Anderson Hoben - the founder and director/owner of Saving Grace Farms for sharing this!!!

Beasts of burden, winners of wars and beloved as the sport of Kings -- now horses are being used to cure the ills of modern life.

05/31/2013

While our charity specializes in Service Dogs, we also FIRMLY believe in Equine Therapy as well. With that in mind, I'd like to pass this on from our friends at Saving Grace Farm: SUMMER CAMP SPACES STILL AVAILABLE!
We also need VOLUNTEERS for camp the weeks of June 17-21, June 24-28, July 8-11, July 15-18, and July 29-Aug 1. The last week is TEEN CAMP and we need more teens to sign up! Please contact the office at 704-638-2339 for more information or visit us online at http://savinggracefarm.com/?page_id=845

Camps are led by a CERTIFIED Riding Instructor with many years experience, who also holds CPR & 1st Aid certifications. All activities are ADULT led and supervised. Riders are required to wear helmets and are recommended to bring their own if they have them. Helmets that are ASTM/SEI approved can...

05/31/2013

i was inspired to make this graphic this morning. i hope that it brings u a sense of hope and acceptance that if u suffer from this injury, while many can't see, some of us do since we know what to look for.

05/30/2013

and in the words of one of our Board of Directors, Tia Konzer D.O., "the only side effect with a psych dog is love and kisses". so what's better, everything this man is carrying on his back or the empirical data showing dogs can help more and help better? i wish dog rescues had enough money to send reps to doctors offices like big pharma companies do.

05/30/2013

i just hope and pray that we can change the lives of people through these amazing and beautiful animals. anyone looking for "intelligent life" in the universe shouldn't look up, they should look at the furry creature licking your face.

05/30/2013

and thank God for them. ~ rhi