A clinician licensed in Tennessee evaluates you confidentially by telehealth, from Memphis to the Smokies. No fake registries and no instant approvals: just ESA and psychiatric service dog letters a clinician has signed, for Tennessee rentals, HOAs and dorms, after an evaluation.
A clinician with a Tennessee license reads your answers. Under Section 66-7-111, written documentation from a healthcare provider with actual knowledge of your disability counts as reliable documentation.
Some quick online questions on your health, the animal that helps you and your Tennessee home.
Each answer is read by a Tennessee-licensed clinician, who schedules a video visit if your case calls for one.
A supported letter is delivered in digital form under the plan you chose; an unsupported request is covered by the refund policy.
Pricing
Every figure below comes straight from our live checkout. The Tennessee screening is free; you pay for a plan at checkout, before the clinician's evaluation, and if a Tennessee-licensed clinician cannot support a letter, our refund policy repays the full amount on a request made within 30 days of purchase. Questions? Read our FAQ page or contact us.
For Tennessee renters with one emotional support animal.
$149.00/ one-time
For Tennessee households with more than one emotional support animal.
$159.00/ one-time
For Tennesseans whose dog is trained to do tasks for a psychiatric disability.
$199.00/ one-time
Letters with a matching certificate or ID card.
ESA letter plus a certificate in one package.
$199.00/ one-time
PSD letter, certificate and ID card together.
$225.00/ one-time
American Service Animals does not sell ESA registrations; every Tennessee letter follows a real clinical evaluation. Not sure which plan fits? Take the free screening first or compare every plan.
From Memphis to Johnson City, every ESA or psychiatric service dog letter we provide starts with an evaluation by a clinician licensed in Tennessee.
A mental health professional who holds a Tennessee license evaluates you and signs a letter only if the evaluation supports it.
Tennessee counts written documentation from a licensed healthcare provider who knows your disability as reliable, and never a site that mainly sells certificates or registrations.
The screening is free. If you paid for a plan and no letter can be supported, the refund policy returns the payment.
A psychiatric service dog has been trained for particular tasks tied to a psychiatric disability, and that training, not a piece of paper, is what makes it a service animal.
Our PSD evaluation looks at your symptoms and your dog's trained tasks.See the PSD plan price
A request under the 2019 law can ask a landlord to set aside a rule that bans or restricts animals, or one that charges for having one. Our Tennessee guide goes city by city.
The criminal side: Section 39-16-304 makes misrepresenting a service or support animal a Class B misdemeanor, and a landlord can also end the tenancy and recover damages, including reasonable attorney fees.
The same animal can be welcome at home and still have no right to come into a store.
Two kinds of animal. Tennessee law names service animals (trained dogs or miniature horses that perform tasks) and support animals that a healthcare provider prescribes or recommends, emotional support included.
Pet payments too. The exception you request can reach a rule that charges any payment for keeping an animal, not only a rule that bans animals.
180 days to complain. The Civil Rights Enforcement Division takes complaints within 180 days after the last discriminatory act.
No public access for an ESA. Under the ADA, service animal status belongs only to dogs with task or work training, so shops can handle an emotional support animal like any pet.
Passing a pet off is a crime. Telling a business your pet is a service animal when it is not is also a Class B misdemeanor, with 100 hours of community service.
A psychiatric service dog. A dog trained for tasks tied to a psychiatric disability is a service animal, which is the evaluation our PSD plan covers.
Telehealth ESA letters and PSD evaluations from us cover all 95 Tennessee counties, and thirty cities have their own local guide, sorted below by Grand Division.
If a landlord refuses or ignores an animal request, these nonprofits offer free civil legal help to Tennesseans who qualify.
| Region | Organization | Call |
|---|---|---|
| East Tennessee | Legal Aid of East TennesseeOffices in Knoxville, Chattanooga, Johnson City, Cleveland, Maryville and Morristown | (865) 637-0484 Knoxville (800) 572-7457 Chattanooga |
| Middle Tennessee | Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the CumberlandsAsks you to call before you come in | 800-238-1443 |
| West Tennessee | West Tennessee Legal ServicesMeetings with an attorney by appointment | 800-372-8346 |
| Memphis | Memphis Area Legal ServicesIts site also lists the Memphis Fair Housing Center | (901) 523-8822 |
Anywhere in Tennessee: the Help4TN legal help line answers at 844-435-7486.
Checkout shows $149 today for an ESA housing letter covering one pet. The screening costs nothing; the plan is paid at checkout before the evaluation, and if a Tennessee-licensed clinician does not support a letter, the refund policy gives that payment back.
When the disability is not readily apparent or known, papers the law treats as reliable that show both the disability and why you need the animal. When the disability is known but the need is not, proof of the need alone.
No. A landlord may verify the documentation you provide, but Section 66-7-111 does not let it obtain confidential or protected medical records or medical information about your disability.
Documentation from a website whose primary function is selling a certificate, registration or license for a service or support animal is not reliable documentation under Tennessee law.
It is a Class B misdemeanor under Section 39-16-304, and the landlord may treat it as a default under the lease, end the tenancy and recover damages, including reasonable attorney fees.
To the Attorney General's Civil Rights Enforcement Division, which requires complaints to be filed no later than 180 days after the last discriminatory act.
Written for Tennessee residents. This is general information, current as of October 2026, and it is not legal advice; laws and agency steps change over time. Screening does not guarantee a letter. In a crisis, call or text 988 for help at any hour. More to read: your ESA rights, ESA laws state by state and who we are.
One evaluation with a Tennessee-licensed clinician settles which documentation, an ESA letter, a PSD letter or none, matches the help your animal gives.
