Your description of your reasons really resonated in a way that I could almost feel what you were saying about faces, and prey animals, and the different ways they attune to nuance.
As a therapist in training I will take this in to my being. In my thoughts about the possibility of someday opening a private practice I was considering having therapy animals involved in my practice. Animals I am considering are a standard poodle, a cat, and/or a rabbit. Your post reminds me that I need to have a way to A) assess a client's potential reaction to having any animal in a session before they ever encounter said animal and B) a place for the animal to go so that a client never has to see the animal at anytime during their appointment times and C) be clear and open that there are therapy animals around so that the client can make a choice about whether or not to see me at all even knowing that they won't likely be forced to confront an animal.
Thank you for sharing. You have helped me see and grow.
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Your description of your reasons really resonated in a way that I could almost feel what you were saying about faces, and prey animals, and the different ways they attune to nuance.
As a therapist in training I will take this in to my being. In my thoughts about the possibility of someday opening a private practice I was considering having therapy animals involved in my practice. Animals I am considering are a standard poodle, a cat, and/or a rabbit. Your post reminds me that I need to have a way to A) assess a client's potential reaction to having any animal in a session before they ever encounter said animal and B) a place for the animal to go so that a client never has to see the animal at anytime during their appointment times and C) be clear and open that there are therapy animals around so that the client can make a choice about whether or not to see me at all even knowing that they won't likely be forced to confront an animal.
Thank you for sharing. You have helped me see and grow.