Therapy dog and Animal Assisted Therapist training designed for existing health professionals, educators, and community workers/volunteers who are interested in the field of Animal Assisted Therapy / Animal Assisted Activities. Our mission is to assist in creating human-canine therapy teams by equipping people with the skills and confidence required to include their dogs in their daily practice in a manner which is safe and ethical for their dog and their clients.
Importantly - our Clinical Course is designed for clinicians to remain within the professional requirements of their regulatory bodies & third parties (AHPRA, Medicare, NDIS etc.) while including animal assisted therapy in to their existing practice. These courses were written and are delivered by registered allied health professionals who are actively providing animal assisted therapies on a daily basis to our own clients.
What is a Therapy Dog?
A Therapy Dog is a dog which has been trained with their handler (usually their owner), to provide therapeutic intervention to another person in the community (e.g. allied health client, school student, nursing home resident).
Please note, we do not train assistance dogs, companion dogs or facility owned dogs.
Our members only page is exclusively available to Therapy Dogs Australia training teams.
Once you have access to this page, you will be able to book in to puppy, adolescent & adult group classes, as well as your temperament assessments.
To access this page you will first need to set up your membership by making an account with your email and a password. Please use the same name that we have booked you in to your course/s under.
We will then grant you access to this page on our end. If you have not been granted access within 24hrs, please email sam@therapydog.com.au as the website does not work perfectly every time.