About Corey
Corey Pitts is a licensed counselor who offers practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. He holds LCMHC and LPC credentials and brings 13 years of experience to his work in North Carolina. Corey speaks English and focuses on helping individuals who feel stuck or overwhelmed by life changes.
He listens for what matters most to each person and builds goals together. Sessions focus on improving communication, coping with strong emotions, and developing clearer routines.
Background and approach
Practical strategies are taught alongside moments to reflect on deeper meaning and values. Corey uses approaches that mix straightforward skill-building with space for personal exploration. He helps clients manage mood issues, addictions, grief, and the stress of caregiving or chronic illness.
He also supports people navigating identity, intimacy, and career transitions. In session, he breaks down problems into steps clients can try between meetings. That might include short behavioral tasks, new ways to notice thoughts and feelings, or exercises to strengthen relationships.
He tailors each plan to fit a person's daily life and limits. Corey aims for a warm, direct style that balances honesty with empathy. He encourages small changes that add up over time.
New clients start by describing current struggles and priorities so work can begin where it matters most.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. It helps people feel heard, clarify what matters to them, and build self-directed goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and depression going. Those skills often include short exercises to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds tools for managing intense emotions and improving how someone copes in stressful moments.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Corey will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what feels useful and adjust the plan as progress is made or new challenges arise.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit brief check-ins, and messaging helps with quick reflections or scheduling. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or mobility limits while staying focused on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English