Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
How Terri works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 23
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Terri
Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 23 years in the helping field. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce distress and manage strong emotions. Many clients come to her feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward.
She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can try new tools and rebuild confidence. Terri emphasizes concrete coping strategies, clearer boundaries, and skill-building.
Background and approach
She helps people work through stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. Her practice also addresses attachment concerns, parenting strain, sleep problems, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, and adjustments after life changes. Her approach blends several evidence-based methods.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and develop new habits. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and emotional safety.
Sessions are practical and conversational. Terri focuses on small steps clients can use between appointments. She supports people coping with trauma, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and body image or self-esteem struggles.
Terri practices in North Carolina as an NC LCMHC. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. The goal is steady progress toward clearer goals, better coping, and more stable daily rhythms.
What Terri works with
Everything Terri lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Terri's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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 natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Terri lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Terri uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people identify what matters most and take small, values-based steps forward even when emotions are hard. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and build different habits through practice. CBT is practical for managing anxiety, sleep problems, and mood swings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Terri will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She checks in about how techniques are working and adjusts plans so the therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and practice in-session skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants a voice-only check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit short updates, quick skill coaching, or people who prefer writing during difficult moments. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress.
Questions people ask about Terri
What concerns does Terri help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, sleeping problems, parenting strain, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, and trauma and abuse among other concerns.
What is Terri's therapeutic style like?
Her sessions are practical and conversational. She focuses on coping strategies, boundary work, and skills clients can use between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
Terri has 23 years of experience working in the helping field with a wide range of concerns and client situations.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an NC LCMHC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and she practices in North Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Terri?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.