Media & Past Presentations

  • 10.18.24 Presenter-SCSU MFT Alumni Conference. (Southern Connecticut State University Marriage and Family Therapy)
  • 10.10.24 to present-Trainer-CABLECT (Connecticut Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement) Crisis Intervention Trainees (police and public safety officers) trained on Death/Death notifications and Grief/Mourning & Bereavement.
  • 11.30.23 Middlesex Health presentation link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cJvi6an2X4fB_wltv6NL_Vh9H-_4-9pw/view?usp=drive_link
  • 2023 Presenter at CTAMFT, CT Association of Marriage and Family Therapists Spring Conference. April 2023
  • 2022 Keynote speaker, Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut, Annual Meeting October 26, 2022
  • 2022 Presenter at the New England Home Care & Hospice Tradeshow and Conference, Newport, RI, May 13, 2022
  • 2021 Closing Keynote Address-Virtual Statewide Hospice & Palliative Care Summit a Tribute to Florence Wald Sponsored by the CT Association for Healthcare At Home-May 13, 2021
    • My Story: An Affair Worth Remembering With Huntington’s Disease
      Debbie Pausig, LMFT, CT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified in Thanatology, Hospice Bereavement Coordinator for VNA Community Healthcare & Hospice.
      Perseverance, Passion and Devotion illustrate my journey and love story with Huntington’s Disease from my husband’s diagnosis through death at his bedside. I will share the gift of my reinvestment and reinvention with the “living” through educating and healing myself and others in the experiences of death & dying, grief, mourning & bereavement.      Fast forward from 2008 to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic.              What would have changed?

My closing keynote begins at time 1:01:25 see below:

https://transcripts.gotomeeting.com/#/s/93be3eae48d44ec1bd57496f688406e1b7bef4aa8d51d07a1456fcbc87ef23ab


  • Below is an interview on 1/18/19 with CBS Radio Correspondent Stephan Kaufman. It aired on 1/21/19 on WCBS AM in NY during the morning rush.  

21KaufmanCarsGoodCry0300futures.mp3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-cars-are-a-popular-place-for-a-good-cry/2019/01/11/abae9b9c-fe25-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on
https://www.facebook.com/debbie.pausiglmft/videos/1235998106541955 https://www.facebook.com/debbie.pausiglmft/videos/1255742934567472 https://www.facebook.com/debbie.pausiglmft/videos/1208905669251199 https://www.facebook.com/debbie.pausiglmft/videos/1272379786237120

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Pathfinder Magazine: A companion guide for widows, December 2015 edition on Pathfindermag.com.

The article is LIGHT in the December darkness by Patricia Ann Chaffee pages 49-51 This is my interview snippet on page 50. Debbie Pausig is a psychotherapist, certified Thanatologist (counselor on death, dying and bereavement),... author, and Minister of Consolation, for the Family Life Office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford. She is also a widow. “My faith gives me hope and strength to get through the holidays and year round,” says Debbie. “I think God and I will have a lifelong dance. This ‘dance’ occurs when my strong will chooses to take the lead at times forgetting that God is my ‘partner,’ dancing beside me. When I take the lead in this ‘dance,’ those are the times I struggle most. Life’s stresses and anxieties get the best of me. It is only when I ‘let go and let God’ back in, that I am able to focus, calm down, accept what I cannot change and move forward. It is then, I realize I am not alone. It is through prayers, reflection and giving thanks for what I have that makes me stronger from the inside out. God, grant me the serenity…No truer words help ground me through the holidays.”

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On August 20, 2015 I was invited as a guest on  the CTV (Connecticut TV) talk show Got Girlfriends.  www.ugotgirlfriends.com.  Here are a few photos.   Thanks ladies!  The interview will be available to view soon. 

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Comcast cable viewers in Hamden, West Haven and New Haven should look for GotGirlfriends? on public access TV, channel 26 Wednesdays at 10am and Sundays at 5pm. To view previous guests go to www.citizens.org; click on VOD, then click on VOD-CTV (not all shows available).

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https://player.vimeo.com/video/132307102?h=30ecc822e5

                                June 27, 2015 HDSA Annual Convention, Dallas TX -                                                                  >scroll down to the recorded video:                                                                  MANAGING MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS IN HD (RECORDED)


2016 with Dr. Ken Doka prominent expert in Grief

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A WJMJ-FM Catholic Radio Special Event: Dealing with Grief During the Holidays:

Father John Gatzak and Dave Nagel speak with Debbie Pausig December 27, 2012

01 Grief and Holidays WJMJ-FM 12272.mp3

 TV Interview on www.ortv-hartford.org by Father John Gatzak taped 12/12/12

"That's the Spirit-Holiday Blues"  12/23/12 Interview with Debbie Pausig.  

Original Air Date: Sunday 12/16/12