About Terri
Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years in the helping field. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or facing major life changes. Terri aims to help clients build coping strategies, set healthier boundaries, and strengthen everyday skills that make life feel more manageable.
She uses straightforward methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions are a place to talk honestly without judgment, and she encourages people to bring whatever feels hard to discuss. Terri works with issues like sleep trouble, parenting strain, ADHD, and self-esteem challenges as well as concerns related to aging, chronic illness, adoption and foster care, and body image. Her approach blends practical, evidence-based tools with a warm, accepting stance.
Terri draws from cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help people live fuller lives alongside difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-oriented work and client-centered practices shape how she builds trust and connection in sessions.
Those methods are often helpful when people want to understand patterns in relationships or heal from past hurts. Dialectical skills are available when stronger emotion regulation or distress tolerance strategies are needed. Terri offers sessions in English and practices in North Carolina.
She supports people across a wide range of life situations and focuses on clear, doable steps that move clients toward their goals.
How Terri’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It helps when anxiety or painful memories keep someone stuck and they want to move toward values-based life choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical steps to change patterns that maintain anxiety or depression.The right approach is often a mix. Terri collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and situation. She listens to what matters most, tests strategies, and adjusts the plan over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats make it possible to work together in different ways. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues and work more like an in-person session. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, practicing skills between sessions, or when a shorter format fits a busy schedule.
These options add flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, health concerns, or limited travel. Terri uses the available formats to teach tools, practice new responses, and track progress so therapy fits real life and everyday needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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