How to Qualify for An Emotional Support Animal

If you have an emotional disability, you can legally qualify for an ESA, short for an emotional support animal. You must be certified as emotionally disabled by a psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist or another mental health professional duly licensed and/or certified. This certification must be a formal letter and properly formatted.

Any other type of doctor, for example, a cardiologist, is not a mental health professional because, unlike psychiatrists, other doctors are not specialists in mental health.

However, some property managers of apartments and airlines accept verification forms filled out by a family doctor. Make sure you have the correct authority that writes the letter to you.

The emotional support animal's letter must be written on the mental health professional's letterhead, including its type of license, license date, license number and the state that issued the license. In addition, you must have the date it was written.

You can see a sample of the application letter on the official website of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, but there are other websites that have the same type of samples that you prefer.

Your letter should contain some details that will inform the recipient that you are:

• A current patient of the mental health professional who signs.
• Under this care and professional treatment for the mental health of your disability that is described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of mental disorders version IV or V.
• Substantially limited in the accomplishment or participation in at least one of the main activities of the life due to his disability.
• Prescribe an ESA as an integral part of the treatment of your current condition.
• The ESA letter must have a date no later than one year from the date of departure.

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