Meggan Monday: Meet McKenzie the Child Dog Therapist

On this week’s Meggan Monday, we are going to take you inside a pediatric behavioral clinic with the Children’s International Medical Group and introduce you to a special therapist who has an even more special friend helping him bring smiles to his patients faces.

Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Patrick Dugger said, “So, I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner. I take care of children, ages three to 18. I see up to 18, so 17-years-old. I diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions like ADHD, ODD, autism, bipolar, depression, anxiety, and the list goes on. I’ve been doing that for the past three years with Children’s International and McKenzie, he does all the work, obviously. But the kids come to see him usually, I get to talk a little bit.”