Conditions our clinicians evaluate

Why your condition matters for housing

Federal fair housing law and Texas Property Code §301.025(c)(2) both oblige a landlord to consider reasonable accommodation requests from disabled tenants. An ESA letter is the piece of paper that links your condition to the animal you hope to keep.

Your landlord never learns the diagnosis. HUD and DOJ's joint 2004 statement permits a landlord to request dependable proof of a disability-based need when it isn't apparent, but generally rules out probing the condition's nature or seriousness.

Questions a clinician works through

Whatever brings you in, most evaluations circle back to the same handful of practical points.

• Which symptoms dominate, and for how long they've been around
• Their pull on sleep, focus, a job or coursework, and the people close to you
• Concrete things your animal does on a bad day
• Any care you've received before or receive today, and how an animal sits beside it
• Whether a letter is honestly the right tool here

The four pages in this section

Anxiety deals with worry and tension that won't switch off. Depression deals with flat mood, lost interest and the heaviness that turns small chores into big ones. PTSD deals with reactions that linger after trauma. Panic attacks deals with sudden floods of fear and the dread of another one.

Plenty of people arrive with something else entirely. If your condition isn't among these four, booking is still open, and the clinician will look at your circumstances as they are.

What an evaluation won't do

This is a focused housing assessment. It isn't therapy, and it never promises a particular diagnosis. Your clinician may decide a letter doesn't fit, or may point you toward local treatment.

Feeling unsafe, or having thoughts of ending your life? Skip the booking page: call or text 988; in an emergency call 911.

Texas housing in 2026

A HUD enforcement memo issued May 22, 2026 reviews untrained emotional support animal requests one at a time instead of treating them as presumptively reasonable, and it backs away from the earlier position that fees for them were off the table. Texas's own accommodation duty in Chapter 301 hasn't changed, and TWC's Civil Rights Division enforces it.

Put simply, a carefully supported letter still carries weight, yet no letter can lock in a yes from every Texas landlord.