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How to Get a PSD Letter in 2026

A psychiatric service dog letter documents your disability-related need for a task-trained dog. Here is the legitimate path: real evaluation, honest routing, and a letter built for housing, universities, and the DOT travel ecosystem.

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Take the PSD assessment

A screening focused on your condition's functional impact and where you need your dog: home, public spaces, or the air.

Complete the clinical evaluation

A licensed provider examines both your psychiatric condition and the task connection: what trained work would actually mitigate it. Some applicants route to ESA status instead, which is the evaluation being honest.

Receive your PSD letter

Qualifying applicants get a signed letter documenting the disability and the need for a task-trained dog, with license details and a verification ID.

Train, or keep training

The letter is your half; the dog's trained tasks are the other. Owner-training is fully legal, and your evaluator can discuss the roadmap.

What a PSD Unlocks

Everything an ESA Has, Plus the Rest of the World

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Housing

Full FHA accommodation rights: no-pet buildings yield, and no pet fees apply. PSD files are the fastest approvals in housing review.

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Public Access

Under the ADA, a task-trained service dog accompanies you in stores, restaurants, transit, and workplaces. No papers required at the door, ever.

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Air Travel

PSDs fly in-cabin, fee-free, on all US carriers with the DOT attestation form. The one assistance animal path airlines still recognize.

PSD Letter

$129 one-time
  • Psychiatric evaluation by a licensed provider
  • Documents disability and task connection
  • Supports housing accommodations nationwide
  • Verification ID included
  • Guidance on the DOT air travel form
  • Refund if you do not qualify
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PSD Consultation

$79 one-time
  • 30-minute consultation with a licensed provider
  • Honest ESA vs PSD routing for your situation
  • Task training roadmap discussion
  • Travel readiness review
  • Credited toward a full evaluation if you proceed
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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

No. No registry exists in US law. PSD status lives in the dog's trained task work, and the letter documents your disability-related need for housing and institutional contexts.
Yes. Owner-training is fully legal in the United States. What matters is the outcome: reliable task performance and solid public behavior.
Trained work performed on cue or alert: interrupting panic episodes, deep pressure therapy, creating space in crowds, guiding to exits, waking from nightmares, retrieving medication. Comfort from presence alone, however real, is emotional support rather than task work.
The letter documents your disability side; airlines require the DOT attestation form and a dog whose behavior demonstrates its training. We guide you through the form as part of the service.

Ready to find out if PSD is your path?

The assessment routes you honestly: PSD when tasks would help, ESA when presence is the medicine, and a refund if neither fits.

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