About Terra
Terra Ogle is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years in behavioral health. She earned her Bachelor and Master of Social Work degrees from the University of Illinois. She has spent much of her career helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma history, and suicidal thoughts.
Terra brings a warm, supportive manner and asks clients to be active in the process. She treats change as something that happens both inside a person and in their surroundings.
Background and approach
Terra focuses on strengths people already have and on building new skills when needed. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and to develop practical ways to reduce distress. Trauma work is a recent passion.
She pays attention to how past stress can shape moods and behavior, and she offers different angles to approach those patterns. Her aim is to help people find the roots of their anxiety so the body and mind can calm down more easily. In sessions her style is reflective with gentle nudges and some real-world humor.
She describes herself as a guide who helps clients navigate the issues they bring. Clients do most of the talking while she listens, reflects, and offers tools. Terra practices in Illinois as an LCSW.
She offers therapy that draws on mindfulness, dialectical skills, and motivational interviewing when those tools fit the goals people bring to therapy.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Terra uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot the link between thoughts, emotions, and actions and then practice new ways of responding to anxiety and stress. CBT sessions often include specific exercises and homework that transfer well to online formats.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills work is useful for managing intense feelings, panic, or anger and can be practiced during video or text check-ins.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Terra will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She often mixes approaches and adapts tools over time so therapy remains practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to work between longer sessions. These options make it easier to practice skills consistently and to use therapy around work, caregiving, or other life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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