About Terri
Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years helping people navigate life’s hard moments. She focuses on practical skills like coping tools, healthy boundaries, and routines to make daily life more manageable. Terri aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly about stress, trauma, mood, and relationship concerns.
She draws from several well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-based perspectives to understand close relationships.
Background and approach
These methods are used in plain language so clients can try things between sessions. Sessions often include concrete steps clients can practice right away. Terri has worked with a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, anger, intimacy-related issues, and ADHD.
She also supports people facing parenting strain, chronic illness, caregiving stress, life transitions, and identity questions tied to LGBT concerns. Her experience includes helping people who have lived with trauma, abandonment, or attachment struggles. She offers multiple ways to meet including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Terri practices from North Carolina and conducts sessions in English. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
She works collaboratively to set goals and build step-by-step plans. For those who feel stuck or overwhelmed, she focuses on small, sustainable changes that add up over time.
Approaches that guide online work
Terri uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, turning overwhelming patterns into manageable steps. She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what matters most and take actions that match their values. These approaches are useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and everyday stressors because they focus on practical tools and choices.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Terri will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan over time. This helps people see what works and keeps therapy focused on real-life changes rather than theory alone.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options provide flexibility for different schedules, energy levels, and day-to-day demands, while keeping the work practical and goal-oriented.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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