{"id":569,"date":"2025-09-29T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:07:17","slug":"therapy-dogs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/therapy-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapy Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Harley & Angela Pass the Therapy Dog Examination! Yipee!<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Bethlehem resident, Angela Jones & Harley passed their exam in November 2010 to become registered with Therapy Dogs International.\u00a0Therapy Dogs offer unconditional companionship unique to the human-animal bond. They visit people of all ages in the hospital, residential retirement centers, accompanying special needs students in school or young children at the library as a cuddly non-judgmental listener.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Angela has been a dog lover since childhood.\u00a0She has a knack for employing creative ways to integrate her love for animals and the natural world into her work. Her career in mental health and education spans\u00a0nearly three\u00a0decades.<\/p>

Earlier in her career, she worked in Wilderness Based Education as an Outward Bound Instructor where she became involved with dog sledding in northern Maine and Minnesota.\u00a0This career took her to Nome, Alaska where she and her family became involved with the Iditarod Sled-Dog Race as hosts to the racers and their support team after they finish the 1500 mile race from Anchorage to Nome.<\/p>

Several years ago, she met two Therapy Dogs in a local school while providing a series of Yoga consultations to special needs students. She said she immediately recognized the important role these special canines have in the lives of the people they meet.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Through this experience, she recognized Therapy Dogs are \u201cborn\u201d, not trained, just as is a good sled dog; a good sled dog requires physical stamina for work, speed, and endurance. Some breeds are better suited than others.\u00a0 For example, when she tried training her beagle, \u201cLucy\u201d, for pulling.\u00a0 Every time Lucy would get a sniff of another critter\u2019s scent, off she\u2019d go with sled.\u00a0 Beagles don\u2019t make the best sled-dogs.\u00a0 However, any breed can be a Therapy Dog.\u00a0 A Therapy Dog has tolerance for other animals and a calm temperament. Although some skills can be taught such as obedience, traits for a Therapy Dog are born part of the personality of the dog.\u00a0 Harley is a 9 year old Husky-mix.<\/p>

Angela admits to being nervous about the 10 step Therapy Dog\u00a0exam and said Harley made passing easy.\u00a0Angela and Harley mostly work together\u00a0in her clinical practice.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t assume everyone is comfortable with dogs and offers the choice to have Harley present or not.\u00a0She says, when\u00a0Harley is involved, she immediately breaks the ice during first time meetings and helps set a tone of comfort and ease that is important for developing trust and a sense of safety.<\/p>

Angela provides individualized strengths-based counseling and evaluation services as a Master Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor.\u00a0She holds registration as Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Teacher for children and adults and incorporates cutting edge research based mind-body therapies in her clinical practice.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Therapy Dogs Harley & Angela Pass the Therapy Dog Examination! Yipee! Bethlehem resident, Angela Jones & Harley passed their exam in November 2010 to become registered with Therapy Dogs International.\u00a0Therapy Dogs offer unconditional companionship unique to the human-animal bond. They visit people of all ages in the hospital, residential retirement centers, accompanying special needs students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-569","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails","has-product-nav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/569\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectdemo.pro\/Angela-thomas-Jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}