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Dr. Pat Pernicano

Dr. Pat Pernicano is a licensed psychologist who worked at the South Texas VAMC from 2017-2025 and co-developed Acceptance & Forgiveness Therapy (AFT), a group program for Veterans. In 2025, she co-authored Healing Veteran Moral Injury: Using Metaphor and Story to Foster Hope and Connection (Pernicano, P. & Haynes, K., Routledge/Taylor & Francis) to help Veterans share their stories and develop new narratives about self, others, and military experiences.

She now focuses on the impact of parental trauma on children and families. Whether through war, natural disaster, or other painful life event, parents transmit emotional pain to their children. Veteran Moral Injury affects children and their development. She has self-published a picture book on Amazon to help children and families talk about emotional pain and move toward healing.

Little Butterfly and Her Daddy: Healing the Pain of War is a gentle way of approaching a sensitive subject.

https://www.pernicanopathways.com

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