Get a confidential evaluation from a clinician licensed in Colorado. No registries and no instant certificates, just real ESA and psychiatric service dog letters for Colorado apartments, HOA condos, mountain-town rentals and campus housing, wherever the evaluation finds a real need.
Free for Every Coloradan
Tell us about your health, the animal you live with and where you rent. Starting is free, and every answer goes to a Colorado-licensed clinician for review.
Private Colorado screening
A few minutes online, on whatever device you have.
Once you check out, a Colorado-licensed clinician weighs your answers against the state's rules for housing findings.
Approved? The letter arrives digitally under your plan. Not approved? Our refund policy returns your payment.
Pricing
Fees shown update live from our checkout. Starting the Colorado screening costs nothing. Checkout comes before the clinician's evaluation, and when a Colorado-licensed clinician cannot support a letter, a refund request sent within 30 days of purchase returns the whole payment under our refund policy. Questions? Read our FAQ page or contact us.
A Colorado housing letter for one emotional support animal, after clinical review.
$149.00/ one-time
Every support animal in your Colorado home, covered by one evaluation.
$159.00/ one-time
A Colorado-licensed clinician's psychiatric service dog evaluation.
$199.00/ one-time
Compare the combined letter and document options.
Colorado ESA letter plus certificate, ordered as one.
$199.00/ one-time
PSD letter, certificate and ID card for Colorado handlers.
$225.00/ one-time
Undecided? Begin with the free screening or review all plans. Approval is a clinical decision, and optional certificates and cards give no access rights.
What our Colorado ESA and psychiatric service dog letters include, and what they never do.
What you get
What you never get
Colorado's licensing laws name who may write the housing finding behind an ESA letter, and how they must have met you first.
Mental health licensees under C.R.S. 12-245-229 and nurses under C.R.S. 12-255-133:
Licensees under the Colorado Medical Practice Act, such as physicians, may have met you in person or by telemedicine (C.R.S. 12-240-144).
A licensee you approach for an assistance animal in housing must make one of these written findings:
Why the finding matters: a written finding on disability and need under these sections is an affirmative defense to C.R.S. 18-13-107.3, Colorado's offense of misrepresenting an assistance animal in housing, which requires a prior warning and carries fines from $25 for a first offense up to $500 for a third or later one. No registry is part of that process; our guides to emotional support animal registration in Colorado and Colorado ESA laws go further.
Colorado protects emotional support animals in housing under its own law, even after HUD narrowed its federal approach in 2026. Our Colorado guide and Colorado ESA law page walk through each rule.
HB26-1045, in force since August 12, 2026, places emotional support animals within Colorado's definition of assistance animals and treats a total ban on them as presumptively discriminatory.
Landlords may request reasonable proof of the disability and of why you need the animal, unless the need is obvious.
Counselors, psychologists, social workers and nurses can sign a Colorado housing finding only after seeing you in person; a physician may see you by telemedicine instead.
Pet charges have limits: no more than $300 as an extra, refundable pet deposit, and pet rent no higher than $35 a month or 1.5% of the rent, whichever is greater (C.R.S. 38-12-106).
Refused? You have one year to go to the Colorado Civil Rights Division, or 180 days for the Denver Anti-Discrimination Office if the home is in Denver.
Your rights shift with the animal you have and where you are, from your apartment to the airport.
Apartments, houses, HOA condos and dorms.
Campus housing runs on its own clock: CU Boulder answers with a Notice of Determination no more than 10 business days into its review, and CSU Pueblo asks for requests 60 days or more before move-in.
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Know the airline's rules before booking.
Under the 2021 DOT rule, airlines are free to classify an emotional support animal as a pet, while a trained service dog travels with the DOT forms. Inside DEN, look for pet relief rooms beyond security, one in each of the A, B and C center cores.
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Every one of Colorado's 64 counties is covered by telehealth, whether the need is an ESA letter or a PSD evaluation; ten cities also have a local guide.
City and County of Denver
ESA and PSD letters in DenverEl Paso County
ESA and PSD letters in Colorado SpringsArapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties
ESA and PSD letters in AuroraLarimer County
ESA and PSD letters in Fort CollinsJefferson County
ESA and PSD letters in LakewoodAdams and Weld counties
ESA and PSD letters in ThorntonJefferson and Adams counties
ESA and PSD letters in ArvadaAdams and Jefferson counties
ESA and PSD letters in WestminsterPueblo County
ESA and PSD letters in PuebloBoulder County
ESA and PSD letters in BoulderEvery county is served the same way, from the Eastern Plains to the Western Slope: you answer the screening online, and a Colorado-licensed clinician takes it from there.
Read the Colorado guideBeside the state deadlines above, three Colorado organizations help renters with disabilities at no charge, each in its own way.
A disability rights organization run by and for people with disabilities. Its Information and Individual Advocacy team may be able to help with reasonable accommodation requests related to housing. Its advocates are not attorneys.
Use the online intake form (a team member replies within three business days) or call 303-839-1775 and leave a voice message.
A private nonprofit active in Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Boulder, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. It investigates reports of housing discrimination that have merit.
(720) 279-4291
Free civil legal help across Colorado, housing and evictions among it, for low-income Coloradans and for seniors who qualify.
303-837-1313
At today's checkout in Colorado, an ESA letter for one pet is $149. The screening is free and checkout precedes the evaluation; should the clinician be unable to support a letter, the whole payment is returned under our refund policy if you request it within 30 days of buying the plan.
That depends on the professional. Physicians in Colorado may evaluate by telemedicine, while counselors, psychologists, social workers and nurses need to have met you in person before they write a housing finding.
Yes. HB26-1045, in effect since August 12, 2026, places emotional support animals within the assistance animal category of Colorado housing law and presumes a total ban on assistance animals to be discriminatory.
No. C.R.S. 24-34-803 lets no housing provider add a charge for a service animal, although the handler is still responsible for any damage.
The clinician's written finding of a disability and the disability-related need for the animal, with the clinician's Colorado license details and signature; your diagnosis and treatment history stay private.
No. Colorado keeps no ESA registry, and a paid online listing is not the written finding that Colorado's licensing statutes describe.
Coloradans: everything above is general guidance, current as of October 2026; treat none of it as legal advice, and know that a screening never guarantees a letter. More to read: ESA rights, ESA rules in other states and our company story. During any crisis, call or text 988 and the 988 Colorado Mental Health Line answers, day and night.
Ask a Colorado-licensed clinician to assess your animal's support and say which Colorado letter, ESA or PSD, it warrants, if either.
