About Corey
Corey Pitts is a licensed counselor who brings 13 years of experience to clients in North Carolina. He holds the LCMHC credential and the LPC credential and focuses on practical work that helps people manage day-to-day struggles. He emphasizes clear goals and steady progress rather than jargon or long labels.
He helps with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, addictions, and grief. He also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy issues, and communication problems.
How Corey works
His approach includes work on self-esteem, career challenges, and coping with life changes. Corey uses a mix of approaches to meet each person where they are. He draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the individual.
He applies cognitive behavioral techniques when patterns of thinking and behavior need to shift. He also incorporates elements of dialectical behavior therapy for strong emotions and existential or Jungian perspectives when clients are grappling with meaning and identity. Sessions are practical and focused on skills clients can use between meetings.
Corey aims for a respectful, nonjudgmental atmosphere where people can talk through painful topics and try new ways of responding. He works with adults on growth, coping, and recovery. He offers several online formats to fit different schedules and preferences.
Corey lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Corey works with
The areas below are the ones Corey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Corey uses client-centered therapy to make room for each person's priorities. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to the client, and building trust so people can explore feelings and goals at their own pace.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. CBT helps people spot patterns that increase anxiety or depression and learn specific techniques to change them. Dialectical behavior therapy is used when intense emotions or impulsive reactions get in the way; it teaches skills for managing strong feelings and improving emotional regulation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Corey will discuss options, try different methods as needed, and tailor sessions to a person’s goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps clarify which techniques produce real progress.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text-based messaging can keep momentum between meetings. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, quieter surroundings, and different ways to engage with therapeutic work.
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