About Tera
Tera Wilkes is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois. She brings seven years of experience to her work and focuses on helping people who are facing mood and stress-related challenges. She creates a welcoming space where clients can speak honestly about what they are feeling and thinking.
She helps people dealing with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, panic, and trauma from abuse. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, parenting strain, grief, and career stress.
How Tera works
Additional focus areas include ADHD, compassion fatigue, and women's issues. Tera uses a client-centered approach that puts the person’s perspective first. She listens for what matters most and shapes sessions around each person’s goals.
She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thinking and behavior to find practical ways to feel better. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Tera helps clients break problems into small, manageable steps.
She encourages skills practice between meetings and checks progress so plans can be adjusted. Her practice aims to support people through life changes, recover from trauma, and improve day-to-day coping. The tone is supportive and straightforward, with an emphasis on real-world tools.
Tera works with English-speaking clients in Illinois and offers several online session formats for convenience.
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What Tera works with
The areas below are the ones Tera selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. In practice this means listening closely to what the client says, reflecting it back, and shaping sessions around the client’s priorities. It helps when someone needs affirmation, space to make sense of feelings, or support in setting personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. This approach is useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and day-to-day coping skills.
Finding the right method is a team effort. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences and suggest approaches to try together. Plans can be adjusted as work progresses so sessions stay useful and focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text messaging fit people who prefer typed communication or need quick, flexible check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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