Dog Therapy is a wonderful way of working with children who have been through very difficult circumstances and fled homes where they did not feel safe. Working with a therapy dog:

• Helps reduce anxiety and stress and builds feelings of comfort
• Helps build trust: Mysti offers complete acceptance and love; it feels safe to talk to Mysti and they can say anything to her
• Helps children who might struggle to talk about their feelings: they can talk about Mysti instead!
• Helps children manage while they are feeling difficult emotions; Mysti provides a distraction so they don’t get distressed or overwhelmed
• Promotes self-esteem
• Help children to work together as a group with Mysti in games and activities
• Mysti is also playful – we can laugh and have much-needed fun!