Friendship, Empowerment,
Thriving Children, & Healthy Spaces
In safe, pup-powered settings, we spark agency, belonging, and self-awareness.
Transitioning stress loops into reflective and meaningful experiences to support participation in developing a positive sense of self.
Inclusive and non-oppressive solutions for the neurodiverse young people collective experiencing social, emotional, and/or mental health challenges.
Transformative Dog-Assisted Intervention
🐾We are a holistic therapy service providing joy, tail-wagging, and fur-tastic paws-and-effect experiences🐾
Welcome! FETCH is a small service here to support their local community in Worthing and surrounding areas. With a big heart and deep values. Led by Alice, an experienced mental health professional and HCPC-registered Occupational Therapist, who has teamed-up with the amazing Mickey, a registered hidden disability support dog and certified therapy dog who absolutely loves his job role as therapy assistant!
Together, they offer Animal Assisted Interventions (AAIs) to support youth and related caregivers navigating adversity. Services are usually one element of a bigger care and support plan. Pending on the needs and agreed partnership, FETCH can provide you with innovative solutions (1:1 or small groups) via dog-assisted therapy, education, and meaningful activities, creating a positive and meaningful dog-led experience that can lead to achieving individual milestones to reach cognitive, emotional, physical, and social potential.
A session can:
🐶Reduce stress, anxiety, detachment, insecurity, boredom, pain
🐶Provide a balance of productivity, leisure, and self-care
🐶Improve engagement, interest, and learning of psychoeducation, brain and body enrichment
🐶Boost self-esteem, confidence, boundaries, prepare and increase engagement for a other services input
🐶Help engage meaningfully with social resources, school, and local community
🐶Provide unconditional companionship, ease feelings of isolation and loneliness
🐶Assist with sensory learning, exploring, and processing via both alerting and grounding tasks
🐶Creatively assist with doing; being; becoming- boosting self-awareness and goal setting
🐶Increases interest in mindfulness, movement, connection
Lived experience matters:
Alice is a neurodiverse woman with AuDHD, with a history of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Special Educational Needs (SEN), and a trauma-to-thriving journey understanding self-worth. It has shaped every aspect of support offered. Alice understands—intimately and authentically—the rich complexities of relationships, the stigma and lack of awareness from others, the adversity of life with a hidden disability, waiting lists and the austerity of the health and social care system, what it feels like to be misunderstood, unsupported, or expected to mask/ be conditioned to reach personal wishes and goals. And how this shapes life decisions, stress loops, and coping mechanisms. That insight is more than empathy; it’s embodied knowing. This enables Alice to:
❤️🩹 See beyond behaviours to underlying needs
❤️🩹 Hold a safe space to be truly trauma-informed, process complex emotions and sensory experiences
❤️🩹 Offer non-judgmental, and reliable neurodiversity-affirming support
❤️🩹 Empower children to unmask, advocate for themselves, and reclaim joy
❤️🩹 Enhances trust, acceptance, and building meaningful professional relationships
❤️🩹 To be able to identity, validate, and guide learning of the brain
❤️🩹 Inspire youth via shared experiences. Building rapport with someone who has walked a similar path and now stands strong with purpose, it models what’s possible and reframes to a positive outlook of the future.
Together, they now share their experience, knowledge, and compassion via a dog-assisted process. Helping youth who are navigating adversity to unmask, recognise and process their needs, explore self-care, increase confidence, and build foundations for a positive sense of self- all elements that can assist with decreasing dehumanising experiences, subjection, and/or hardship.
750+
Successful Therapeutic Sessions
130+
Neurodivergent Young People Impacted
+50hrs
Psychoeducation/ Neurodiversity-affirming Training Provided
Mickey the Therapy Dog
Mickey's strengths are his empathetic nature, loyalty, intelligence, and enthusiasm for life.
Mickey loves to play, is affectionate, and very friendly.
As a working dog breed, he has the stamina and interest to play, do tricks and training, agility, and scent work.
Mickey is a healthy, happy, and very soft Welsh Springer Spaniel. He brings joy, confidence, curiosity, and a lot of love in each space he enters. He is neutred, well-groomed, routinely provided flee and worming treatments, and gets treated like a little prince 🤴
🐶 Attuned to sensory cues/ stress /emotional energy from his pack, and will respond when appropriate
🐶 Mickey offers alot of non-verbal comfort, play, creative communication, and grounding presence
🐶 Mickey works only when rested, engaged, and happy—never forced, always respected and dog-led
🐶 Experiences with Mickey are grounded in mutual care and understanding—supporting the animal-human bond as a two-way, trusting relationship that involves looking out for one another.
💬 Ready to see what is offered?
💬Free discovery call and meet & greet with Mickey for youth, families, and organisations
❤️🩹 Individual trauma-informed therapy sessions
🧠 Neurodiverse-affirming practices and psychoeducation training for youth and adults
🎯 Dog-Assisted Youth Wellbeing Programs (one-to-one / small groups)
🐕🦺Dog-assisted individual occupational therapy process (sign-up to be on waiting list)
Whether your child has struggled to connect with traditional services or simply lights up around animals, FETCH offers a therapeutic alternative grounded in respect, joy, and possibility.
Let’s make therapy feel like connection, not correction 🐶✨
Grooming & Care Routines
Positive Dog Training & Communication Tasks
Psychoeducation & Sensory-Informed
Dog-Themed Projects & Leadership Initiatives
Dog Advocacy,
Welfare &
Enrichment Tasks
Creative Dog
Activities &
Storytelling
Dog Comfort,
Relaxation &
Mindfulness
Dog Activities,
Goal Setting &
Reflective Journalling
Referring Professionals
Get in contact to have an informal chat, arrange a meet and greet, and become a step closer in wagging away some stress, and fetching more smiles for your clients.
What to Expect...
🐾 Our Paw-fect Process
With boundless tail-wagging enthusiasm, we fetch these pup-tastic steps to get started:
Paw-sitive Meet & Greet Sniff out goals during a friendly chat with Mickey—paws and all!
Sniff Test Your Space Risk-assess indoor and outdoor settings to ensure every corner is pup-approved.
Pup-Protection Protocols Establish animal welfare and dog-safeguarding measures so Mickey stays happy and healthy.
Fetch the Referrals Gather and complete any paperwork—no bone left unturned.
Bow-Wow Booking Organise a tail-wagging timetable of sessions that fits your family’s routine.
Tailored Tails Launch a person-centred process: each session is custom-designed to your child’s needs.
Bark-Safe Confidentiality Keep sessions under wraps. Handovers happen only on a need-to-know leash.