Meet a Florida-licensed mental health clinician by secure telehealth for a confidential evaluation. No registry listings or instant certificates: if a letter is supported, you get a real ESA or psychiatric service dog letter written for Florida landlords, condo associations and campus residence halls.
Free Florida intake
The free screening covers how you are feeling, your animal and where you live. Section 760.27 treats information from a Florida health care practitioner as reliable when that practitioner personally knows of your disability and acts within the scope of practice, which is why, after checkout, a Florida-licensed clinician reviews every answer.
A short online questionnaire you can finish from a phone, a porch or a break at work.
After checkout, your Florida-licensed clinician goes over the answers and schedules video time if appropriate.
When a letter is supported it arrives digitally; when it is not, our refund policy returns the plan's cost.
Every figure here is current at checkout. The screening is free. Plans are purchased before any evaluation, and when a Florida-licensed clinician concludes you do not qualify, the whole payment comes back to you as our refund page describes. Questions? Read our FAQ page or contact us.
For Florida renters with one emotional support animal
For Florida homes with two or more animals giving emotional support
For Floridians whose psychiatric service dog has task training
Letters issued along with a certificate or ID card
ESA letter and certificate in one order
PSD letter, certificate and ID card together
Pensacola to Key West, a Florida-licensed clinician stands behind each ESA and psychiatric service dog letter we provide.
Section 760.27 lets a Florida housing provider ask for reliable information from a health care practitioner. That is what our letters are: written by a clinician licensed in Florida after an evaluation, with the clinician's license details, and naming each animal the evaluation supports.
What we never sell
Florida's 2020 law sets the questions a housing provider may put to a tenant with an emotional support animal. It does not cover trained service animals, which follow Section 413.08 instead. More detail sits in our Florida ESA law guide.
If your disability is not readily apparent, the landlord may ask for reliable information: a government disability finding, disability benefits, a disability-based housing voucher, or a practitioner's information.
If you keep several emotional support animals, the landlord may ask about the need for each and for proof that each one meets the state and local rules on licensing and vaccinations.
The landlord may not request your diagnosis, ask how severe it is, or demand medical records, and cannot make you use its form or sign a notarized statement, nor refuse you just for skipping its usual process.
On its own, an online ID card, patch, certificate or registration does not show a disability or a disability-related need.
No extra compensation can be required for an approved emotional support animal, though the tenant still pays for any damage the animal does.
Their information counts only after they have given you in-person care at least once, unless they are registered for Florida telehealth under Section 456.47.
Faking a need is a crime: under Section 817.265, false ESA documentation or a knowing misrepresentation is a second-degree misdemeanor that also carries 30 hours of community service.
Section 760.27 applies to the extent federal law requires, and a HUD memo of May 22, 2026 limits federal charges to trained animals, so raise any request with your landlord early.
Two Florida questions that come up again and again: which landlords the law covers, and where an animal can shelter in a storm.
All 67 Florida counties are in reach for our telehealth ESA and PSD evaluations, and each city below also has its own local guide.
From the Panhandle to the Keys, the process is identical: an online screening, followed by a telehealth visit with a Florida-licensed clinician when one is appropriate.
The Florida Department of Health keeps one public search for the boards that license ESA letter writers. Here is where to look and how to read what it shows.
A license or a telehealth registration? Professions that end in “Out-of-State Telehealth” are Florida telehealth registrations under Section 456.47, not Florida licenses. Every Florida letter we provide is signed by a clinician licensed in Florida.
A practicing status? The License Status filter lists Clear, Military, Obligations and Probation among practicing statuses, and Null and Void, Retired and Closed among non-practicing ones.
At today's checkout, a one-pet ESA housing letter in Florida costs $149. The screening is free of charge. Payment for your plan comes before the evaluation starts, and a full refund under our refund policy follows if a Florida-licensed clinician declines to support a letter. Our Florida ESA letter cost guide explains each price in more detail.
Only when that provider has treated you face to face at least once, or holds a Florida telehealth registration under Section 456.47; a health care practitioner licensed in Florida faces no such condition.
Not on its own. Section 760.27 says an Internet identification card, patch, certificate or similar registration cannot by itself establish a disability or a disability-related need.
Under Section 817.265, falsified ESA documentation or a knowing misrepresentation of a disability-related need is a second-degree misdemeanor, and 30 hours of community service must be completed within six months of the conviction.
One year from the discriminatory practice. The Florida Commission on Human Relations then has 100 days to investigate and tell you in writing whether it intends to resolve the complaint.
Counties with designated shelters must name at least one that accepts people with pets, so ask your county which shelter that is; special needs shelters must admit service animals.
Florida readers: everything on this page is guidance, current as of October 2026, which cannot replace legal advice. Florida statutes and county shelter plans are revised over the years. Screening does not guarantee a letter. Anyone facing a crisis can call or text 988 at any hour, any day. Also see ESA rights explained, how ESA laws differ by state and the team behind American Service Animals.
From a Florida-licensed clinician you will learn whether your animal's support is the kind an ESA letter or a PSD letter can document.
