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Erica Carpenter, Ph.D., LMFT-S

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Music as a Coping Skill
If you're a music lover like me, you know listening to the perfect song can be therapeutic and change your mood almost instantly. Science...


Being Human
I recently re-read one of my favorite books, The New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir, and throughout the chapters, she discusses the idea...


Surviving the Holidays (During a Pandemic)
For many, the holiday season can be difficult enough as is for many different reasons during a normal year, much less during a year with...


Some Questions to Help Build Emotional Intimacy
One of the best ways to continue building emotional intimacy in a relationship is for partners to continue to learn about each other as...


Primary vs. Secondary Emotions
You may have heard the phrase “anger is a secondary emotion”, but what does that mean? To understand this phrase, let me first describe...
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