About Terri
Terri Hipps is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, or major life changes. She uses a respectful and compassionate approach in sessions.
Conversations and plans are adjusted to fit each person's needs and goals. Terri aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is nervous about starting therapy.
Background and approach
Her style centers on listening carefully and helping people find practical ways to cope. She draws on methods that help people identify unhelpful thoughts and build clearer steps forward. Sessions can include short-term problem solving and longer work on past trauma when needed.
Terri has worked in Texas for over two decades and brings that breadth of experience to regular sessions. She addresses a wide range of issues including relationship and communication problems, caregiver stress, addiction concerns, and responses to disaster. People who meet with her can expect a steady, person-focused pace and plans that change as progress is made.
She emphasizes small, achievable changes and supports people as they practice new ways of managing feelings and situations.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Terri commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience, helping them set goals and move at their own pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or depression, often using practical exercises between sessions.Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what the client prefers.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when helpful. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter updates and more frequent, flexible contact between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care while adapting to different schedules and circumstances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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