Some background on this comic:

Transcript (sketch):

"When I’m in my own yard, I feel invicible, doc… Step outside and, poof! No confidence

Transcript (commentary):

I hate the cartoon cliché of someone (or, in my case, some animal) on a psychiatrist’s couch. I’ll do them, obviously, but for some reason this situation always points out the lunacy of mixing animal and human behavior. If the psychiatrist was also a dog, I’d be more comfortable with it. But the approach I’ve used here makes me want to say, “Wait a minute―dogs don’t visit psychiatrists! How’d he even find the right floor?” Before long, I start analyzing the improbabilities in everything I’ve drawn and I might end up having to lie down on the couch for a while.