Meet Your Hosts
Speaker Bios:
Melissa Y. Winkle OTR/L, FAOTA, CPDT-KA and Phoebe Yam OTD, OTR/L, CPDT-KA, C-HAIS are occupational therapists and certified professional dog trainers. They are practitioners, educators, human-animal coaches, advocates, curriculum designers and presenters, authors, and research team members in the area of animal assisted services.
melissa@dogwoodtherapy.com | phoebe@dogwoodtherapy.com
About Dogwood Therapy Services:
Dogwood specializes in human occupational therapy services and dog training to support people and their dogs to have meaningful, positive relationships. They offer traditional and non-traditional services for people of all ages with physical, cognitive, and psychiatric disabilities that impact independent functioning in everyday life. Dogwood staff celebrate the meaningfulness and motivation of human animal interactions and animal assisted services in its many forms. Dogwood is committed to facilitating positive interactions and relationships with animals as part of people’s daily lives. The organization offers dog training for pets, emotional support dogs, service dogs, and human-dog teams working in animal assisted services.