title: Therapy Has Gone to the Dogs: The Therapist's Guide to Animal Assisted Therapy
author: Susan Kelsey MFT
description: Susan Kelsey is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor in private practice in Orange County, California. Susan's practice is limited to children of all ages - from toddlers through teens. Susan specializes in the use of play therapy and Animal Assisted Therapy to help children work through their challenges. Susan is a nationally recognized speaker and presenter on subjects related to the treatment of children and adolescents. Susan has been featured in numerous parenting magazines as an expert on issues relating to children, and was interviewed on the television news show, "Daybreak OC". For additional information about Susan and her practice, please visit www.susankelseymft.com
zlib_text: ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  NANCY CLARKE
  In addition to her role as Manager of the 
  City of Vancouver Animal Control Services, Nancy 
  is working toward a PhD as a graduate student in 
  the Animal Science Department at the University 
  of British Columbia. She is researching the 
  environmental risk factors for canine aggression. 
  Nancy has a master’s degree in social work but has 
  had a parallel dog-training career. She trained her ﬁ rst 
  dog when she was 12 years old and has been training 
  professionally and providing dog obedience instruction to 
  others since 1973. Nancy combined both of her professional 
  interests under the name Paciﬁ c Canine. She offers counselling 
  and assistance to people living with dogs who have behavioural issues and she provides 
  pet-loss counselling. Nancy has also been active in the therapy dog movement, ﬁ rst 
  as the Provincial Evaluator for the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program, then as 
  the program’s Provincial Director, and now as an advisor to the National Pro