About Tera
Tera Wilkes is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) working in Illinois with seven years of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people cope with mood concerns, anxiety, grief, and relationship or parenting strain. She also supports people navigating ADHD and challenges related to trauma, depression, and identity concerns.
Her approach centers on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly about what’s on their mind. She listens to how symptoms show up in daily life and helps people name concrete goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are geared toward practical steps that fit each person’s routine. Tera uses client-centered work to prioritize each person’s values and pace. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and build helpful skills.
Together these approaches aim to make change feel doable. She has experience with a wide range of concerns including compassion fatigue, panic, personality disorders, and first responder issues. She also addresses LGBT and gender dysphoria matters and women’s issues, always focusing on the individual’s needs and strengths.
People who prefer straightforward, practical sessions tend to work well with her. She emphasizes collaboration, clearer coping strategies, and small habit changes that add up. The work often includes short home practice and skill-building between sessions.
How client-centered and CBT tools work online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s priorities first. The therapist focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping each person set their own pace and goals. This style helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through identity concerns, grief, or relationship stress.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions often include short exercises and practice tasks to do between meetings, which can reduce anxiety, improve mood, and help manage ADHD-related routines.
Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. Many people combine listening-focused work with skill practice to get both emotional support and practical change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people connect face to face without travel, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching or brief check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family routines while focusing on skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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