I know this topic has been covered in the past, but I haven’t seen it come up in a while and I had a question about it.

For some time now, I’ve been wishing I could bring one of my dogs with me to therapy, but I’ve never seen anyone in my T’s office with a dog and she’s also not a service dog. I’m too scared to ask because of the risk of my t saying no. The reason I wish I could bring her is because she always snaps me out of dissociation very quickly and I tend to dissociate heavily when working on trauma.

Yesterday, my asked what helps me with flashbacks and I mentioned my dog being helpful for that and especially for dissociation. He jokingly said, “I wish there was a way you could harness that and carry it with you.” And I was like, “I could haha” and gestured towards my purse. He was like, “is she in there right now??” And I was like, “umm no I definitely wouldn’t bring her without approval.” And then he goes, “hey some people like to take their dogs everywhere with them.”

I approached the whole conversation in a joking way to sort of test the waters I guess, but idk how or if I should seriously ask or bring the idea up further.