Blue Sky Family Counseling and Coaching is now offering Animal Assisted Therapy! Three-year-old Delilah is a golden doodle who has specifically been trained to help serve others and has worked with hospice patients. Delilah has a sense of when an individual or child is hurting both physically and emotionally.
Animal Assisted therapy can assist in many ways for individuals experiencing chronic pain. There have been many research studies supporting the idea that Animal-assisted therapy has been shown to help individuals experiencing many medical conditions including but not limited to neuropathy, fibromyalgia, anxiety, and depression.
For most individuals, animals help provide a sense of comfort and ultimately can help reduce an individual’s pain by releasing certain “feel good” hormones such as oxytocin, reduce stress responses to pain, uplifting mood, and provide comfort when an individual is in distress.
