Carolina Therapy Connection News and Updates

Carolina Therapy Connection is SO excited to begin providing Mental Wellness and Counseling Services! Do you ever feel like everyday is similar to jumping on the hamster wheel?! You expend all your energy day after day and it leaves you feeling empty, anxious, and overwhelmed. Whether you are a parent/caregiver, teen trying to navigate the world, or just someone that feels anxious and overloaded by life’s expectations, our licensed clinicians are here to come alongside you and help you to reach your fullest potential.

Our services cover a wide range of interventions aimed at improving a child, teen, and family’s overall emotional well-being. These include: Client-centered therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, AND Mindfulness therapy!

We are accepting ALL AGES (not just kiddos!) for these services – so we encourage family and caregiver counseling too! You do not have to be a current or previous patient at Carolina Therapy Connection to receive these services.

Our Mental Wellness and Counseling services will be provided virtually (tele-therapy platform) OR in-person at our Greenville clinic location. It will consist of individual or family counseling. We will only be accepting Private Insurance and Private Pay only for now. We are in the process of getting credentialed with Medicaid for our counseling services and will keep you updated on when that insurance option is available!

Getting started is EASY! If you are interested in our mental wellness and counseling services, call us at 252-341-9944 to get started today! Our referral coordinator will help answer any questions you may have and make the process as easy as possible for you!

Calling all parents interested in SUMMER CAMPS! We are so excited to announce that we will be holding social skills summer camps at CTC this year! As we begin the process of organizing our very first summer camp that will target social skills, executive functioning skills, problem solving and team building all while having FUN .. we have some questions for you! 

In order for us to determine the greatest needs of our community, we are seeking out feedback and interest from YOU! Click the button below to fill out our summer camps interest survey!

During the week of St. Patrick’s Day (March 13th – March 17th), THREE sneaky leprechauns will be hidden each day somewhere within our Greenville clinic! The kiddos who find one of the leprechauns will win a FREE CTC t-shirt. The 3 sneaky leprechaun’s will be hidden around each discipline, so that way one PT, OT, and ST kiddo will be able to win a free shirt each day! 

Remind your kiddos to be on the lookout for the little green leprechaun above when they come to their appointment. Don’t forget to wear green on Friday, March 17th for St. Patrick’s day!

On Monday, March 21st we will celebrate World Down Syndrome Day at all of our clinic locations! The date for WDSD is always the 21st day of the 3rd month, as it signifies the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which causes Down Syndrome. To show our support that day, our staff will be wearing unique, mismatched, and colorful socks! We invite all of our kiddos to wear their silly socks as well! 

The North Carolina Down Syndrome Alliance asks everyone to post a picture of you rocking your socks and use the following hashtags to show support and spread awareness:

• #WDSD2023
• #RockYourSocks
• #NCDSA

Carolina Therapy Connection is a proud sponsor of the Autism Society’s Run/Walk for Autism this year! Come out and join us for amazing morning of community that will improve the lives of children and adults with autism.  

How do you register and build your team?

Click the button below to get started! The t-shirt deadline is March 6, and you must register by March 29th to participate. Registration is online only; on-site registration will not be available.

Then invite your friends, family, and co-workers to join your team or support you with a donation. The Eastern Run/Walk website for Autism makes it easy to create a personal fundraising page and send emails to recruit teammates and donations. Funds raised support local programs of the Autism Society of North Carolina.

Create, Heal, Grow are free adult workshops facilitated by Emerge Gallery & Art Center to individuals living with a health disability or disease, their family, and/or caregivers. Create, Heal, Grow workshops are a part of our Art is Good Medicine out reach program. In addition, they partner with ECU Health and the McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge. Professional visual artists work with adults in the ECU Health Cancer Center, along with the McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge, and pediatric patients in the Maynard Children’s Hospital. 

Although these workshops are FREE, participants must pre-register for the events! Registration can be done online or in-person at The Emerge Gallery & Art Center facility. Click the buttons below to register for one of their upcoming workshops!

Awaken Coffee is on a mission to employ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, promoting their skills, confidence and dignity. Awaken Coffee will open soon at 101 W. 14th Street in Greenville!

In order to prepare for their opening, they are hosting a benefit yard sale on Saturday, March 4th from 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Admission is FREE!

What can you expect at the yard sale? – Lots of quality furniture, a large lot of new Prissy Plates, toys, Christmas decor, bedding, pictures, sports equipment, glassware, home decor, 20 boxes of LVP flooring, student drums, Awaken Coffee, and so much more to unpack.

Where is the yard sale? – Awaken Coffee will hold their benefit yard sale at Unity Church in Greenville (4301 Charles Blvd. Greenville, NC). 

Click the button below to learn more about Awaken Coffee, their mission, and how you can help!

Building Resilience and Courage to Excel (BRACE), operates as a collaborative referral network to reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Pitt County and increase resilience in children. BRACE includes members of law enforcement, social services agencies, mental health practices, childcare providers, the health department, physicians’ offices and university researchers. Their goal is to empower the community to build a culture of resilience to lessen the impact of trauma through collaboration, education, advocacy, and compassion.

The Wellness at Wildwood event is on Saturday, April 29th from 11:00 AM until 1:30 PM at Wildwood Park in Greenville, NC. You can expect to see a variety of community vendors, activities, food and more at this event!