About Terri
Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 23 years in the helping field. She focuses on practical support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and similar challenges. Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental.
She aims to help people build skills and coping strategies that fit everyday life. She helps clients set healthy boundaries and develop core skills where needed.
How Terri works
That can include problem solving for current stress or gentle work to heal from past trauma and abuse. Terri makes space for difficult feelings like grief, anger, shame, and fear without reacting or judging. Her approach draws on several proven methods to match what a person needs.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts and behavior. She also works from attachment-based and client-centered perspectives to strengthen relationships and emotional understanding. Sessions may focus on practical steps such as building routines for better sleep, coping plans for intense emotions, and clearer communication habits.
For people managing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, chronic illness, or caregiving strain, she aims to create realistic strategies that fit daily life. Terri brings years of broad experience to each meeting and adapts her approach to the person in front of her. She speaks English and meets with people online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
The intake process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
Terri lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Terri works with
The areas below are the ones Terri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection styles and helps people create more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative planning makes sessions more focused and relevant to everyday life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session or visual cues help. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, struggles that come up between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule while using approaches like ACT, CBT, and attachment work.
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