Shantelle Tjaden, LPC, NCC, C-AAIS is a doctoral student in Counselor Education and Counseling at Idaho State University. Shantelle is a Certified Animal-Assisted Intervention Specialist (C-AAIS) through the Association for Animal-Assisted Intervention Professionals (AAAIP). Shantelle is the assistant director of the Research on Anthrozoological Relationships (ROAR) lab.