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In recent years, animal assisted therapy has become a popular method to increase happiness and wellbeing, especially for people who do not like receiving the usual therapy provided by psychologists. In the Netherlands, work responsibilities have become so demanding that employees are struggling to keep up, causing a lot of stress, which effects them even after the work-day is done. If this intense stress is present for a long enough time, it might develop into a condition that is commonly known as burnout. As a result of increasing stress in the workplace, recent studies have shown that millions of people around the world suffer from burnout. Thus, creating a strong need for researchers to find creative solutions to decrease work-place stress. This urgent problem has caught the attention of a group of Master students who have decided to tackle this problem head on, with hopes of improving the mental health of workers in the Netherlands.