1. ESA housing letter (draft)
A draft written for a licensed mental health professional to review, edit, and sign. Bring it to a provider who knows you — it is a starting point, not a finished letter.
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Create an emotional support animal letter for housing in a couple of minutes — free, and right in your browser. Fill in a few details and you’ll get three ready letters: an ESA housing-letter draft for a licensed professional to sign, a request to send your own therapist, and a reasonable-accommodation request for your landlord. Preview, copy, or download any of them as a PDF.
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How it works
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Fill in a few details
Enter your name, your state, your animal, and a sentence or two about how your symptoms affect you and how your animal helps. Everything stays in your browser.
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Generate your letters
The tool instantly assembles three letters: an ESA housing-letter draft, a request to send your own therapist, and a reasonable-accommodation request for your landlord.
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Get them signed and send them
Have a licensed mental health professional review and sign the housing-letter draft. The therapist and landlord requests are ready for you to send yourself. Copy or download any of them as a PDF.
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2. Request to send your therapist
Already see a therapist or counselor? Send them this to ask whether they’ll evaluate you for an ESA and sign a housing letter. This letter is yours to send.
3. Reasonable-accommodation request for your landlord
Once you have a signed letter from a licensed professional, send this to your landlord to formally request to keep your emotional support animal. This letter is yours to send.
Licensed ESA Letter · Housing
No provider who’ll sign it? Get evaluated by a licensed one.
The draft above needs a licensed professional’s signature to be valid. If you don’t already have a provider who will sign one, connect with a state-licensed mental health professional for a HIPAA-secure video evaluation. If you qualify, you receive a signed ESA letter valid for housing under the Fair Housing Act.
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- Valid for housing under the Fair Housing Act
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Common questions
Can I write my own ESA letter?
No. A valid ESA housing letter must be written and signed by a mental health professional licensed in your state. You can prepare a draft — like the one this tool makes — to bring to a provider, but it only becomes valid once a licensed professional reviews it, agrees with it, and signs it. Writing a letter yourself and passing it off as a professional’s is letter fraud.
Is the letter this tool makes a valid ESA letter?
No. This free tool assembles a draft plus request letters to save you time. The housing letter is clearly marked as an unsigned draft for a licensed professional to review and sign. It becomes valid only after a professional licensed in your state signs it on their own letterhead.
Do landlords verify ESA letters?
Increasingly, yes. A housing provider may contact the licensed professional who signed your letter to confirm it is genuine and that they hold a real license. That is exactly why a self-written or fake letter can fail — a real letter signed by a licensed professional can be verified.
What does a valid ESA housing letter include?
It is on the licensed professional’s letterhead and includes their license type, license number, and state of licensure; a statement that you are their patient and that an emotional support animal helps with your condition; and their signature and the date. It does not need to state your diagnosis.
What if my doctor won’t write an ESA letter?
Many primary-care doctors don’t write ESA letters. You can be evaluated by a state-licensed mental health professional who does. If they determine an emotional support animal is appropriate for you, they provide a signed letter valid for housing under the Fair Housing Act.
Want to see what a real one looks like first? Read our annotated ESA letter samples and free templates.