About Terry
Terry Massey is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people navigate relationship and life challenges. He holds a Master of Social Work and maintains dual licensure as an LCSW in North Carolina and an LISW-CP in South Carolina. Terry brings a long history in mental health services and supervision to his work.
He uses clear, practical methods to help people reduce anxiety, manage anger, and rebuild self-esteem.
How Terry works
Sessions focus on skills you can use between appointments and on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating. Terry often blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with relational and existential perspectives to meet each person where they are. Parents and individuals contact him for help with family conflict, parenting strain, grief, addiction concerns, and sexuality or intimacy questions.
He also supports people facing career transitions, bipolar or depressive symptoms, ADHD challenges, and the effects of trauma and abuse. His background includes work in community mental health and early childhood services. Terry emphasizes a collaborative relationship.
He aims to help clients discover strengths and practical steps forward. Over time he shifts from hands-on coaching to lighter check-ins as people gain confidence and new skills. He offers a mix of individual, couple, family and group psychotherapy informed by Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, Emotionally-Focused, Existential, and Imago approaches.
Sessions are available in English and can be scheduled online or by phone to fit busy lives.
Terry lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Terry works with
The areas below are the ones Terry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a strong collaborative relationship so people feel understood and can discover their own solutions; it helps with motivation, self-esteem, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and anger management. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets relational patterns and emotional bonding, making it a good fit for intimacy struggles and relationship repair.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they decide whether skills-based work, emotional exploration, or a mix of methods best fits the situation and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for deep conversation and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging can support shorter reflections between appointments. These options let people fit sessions into busy schedules and maintain continuity when travel or location changes occur.
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