Author: Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS

29 Sep Virtual Reality: The Future of Therapy

Posted at 05:56h in All Blog Posts, Anxiety, Children, Post-Traumatic Stress, Stress, The Latest, Therapy, Trauma, Uncategorized by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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Virtual reality (VR) offers clients a three-dimensional environment, generating a sense of immersion in another world in which the client interacts. Although the environments are artificial, the human brain does amazing things with it – it experiences the environment as if it were the real...

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13 Oct The Miracle of Autumn

Posted at 13:43h in All Blog Posts, Feelings, Resilience by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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If summer is your favorite time of year and you dread the upcoming winter – you may want to stop reading here -- or you might want to read on for hope.  Slowly, gradually, the sunny days of summer (despite the COVID-19 pandemic) are fading...

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27 Jul Disconnected Connection

Posted at 11:41h in Feelings by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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“It’s easier being in each other’s presence, or in each other’s absence, than in the constant presence of each other’s absence.”–Gianpiero Petriglieri Yes, Zoom Exhaustion is real. As we continue to work from home, visit family and friends on the screen, or go to school virtually,...

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23 Jul Joy

Posted at 12:08h in Resilience by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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Joy. Such a small word.  A word that seems out of place in a world rocked by death, destruction, violence and oppression.  An experience that seems so far away as we are struggling to survive, or fight racism, or cure and prevent disease, or heal ourselves...

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09 Jun What Good Can Come of This?

Posted at 22:00h in Resilience by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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Who would have thought the brutal murders of several black men and women would, after so many years, bring out millions of people to rally for the value of all human life -- especially black lives --and to protest police violence and injustice??  Who would...

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29 May Mentionable and Manageable

Posted at 19:30h in Feelings by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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“I’m getting really tired of being alone,” a friend said, tears flowing down her face. “I’m angry I don’t get to have my graduation ceremony,” a high school student confided. “I’m disappointed we can’t go on the cruise we’ve looked forward to for a year,” someone lamented...

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04 May Why?

Posted at 14:13h in Spirituality by Carol Pitts, PhD, LPC, LMFT, CPCS 0 Comments

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Why? Why did this have to happen? Why me? When we don’t have answers to impossible situations, a human response is to cry out, “why?” Why did my dad get COVID-19?  Why can’t I see my parents trapped in a nursing home? Why? And when we don’t have an answer...

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