My Pet Is Better Than Your Therapist
Where science meets magic: how animals calm anxiety, support neurodivergent minds, and help you build emotional resilience.
By Jennifer Bronsnick, MSW, LCSW — Founder of Paws 4 Wellness
What if your most powerful support is already beside you?
For millions of people living with anxiety, ADHD, panic, or emotional overwhelm, traditional therapy can feel expensive, inaccessible, ineffective — or simply not enough.
This book explores how the human–animal bond can become a practical, evidence-based path to nervous system safety and emotional resilience.
This isn’t about replacing therapy.
It’s about recognising that healing doesn’t always happen through words — it happens through connection.
Inside the book, you’ll learn how to:
Calm anxiety and panic using your pet as a natural co-regulator
Support ADHD and neurodivergent nervous systems through rhythm, movement, and presence
Shift out of fight-or-flight and into nervous-system safety
Release emotional stress through gentle, pet-guided practices
Build resilience without forcing positivity or “fixing” yourself
Feel less alone — and more understood — through the human–animal bond
Jennifer’s “5 Paws of Pet Medicine” framework
A simple, science-backed approach you can practise in minutes a day — with your pet as your guide.
Connection • Movement • Mindfulness • Tapping • Reflection
Each one aligns with the body’s natural healing systems and supports regulation, presence, and resilience.
Why this approach works
Animals live in a state of presence, regulation, and trust that humans often forget. When we slow down enough to meet them there — through touch, breath, movement, and attention — our nervous systems begin to follow.
Science calls this co-regulation.Your pet just calls it love.
With 20+ years of clinical experience and over 14,000 emotional support animal evaluations completed, Jennifer translates complex mental-health science into compassionate, accessible tools — without shame, overwhelm, or pressure to be “better.”
This book is for you if:
You live with anxiety, ADHD, or emotional overwhelm
You’re neurodivergent and tired of systems that weren’t built for your brain
You feel supported by your pet but want more tools to feel better
Traditional therapy hasn’t given you what you hoped for
You want gentle, science-backed support that also honours intuition and connection
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