About Terry
Terry Massey is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 26 years in mental health practice. He holds an MSW and maintains licenses as an LCSW in North Carolina and an LISW-CP in South Carolina. Terry works with individuals and couples, helping them navigate stress, anxiety, relationship problems, and major life changes.
He favors clear, practical conversations in sessions. He often uses Cognitive Behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
He also draws on Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused approaches to strengthen how people connect with themselves and others. Terry has a long background in community mental health, early childhood settings, and behavioral health leadership. That history gives him experience with grief, trauma, addictions, and mood concerns such as bipolar and depression.
He also supports people facing identity and intimacy-related issues. In sessions he focuses on building a collaborative relationship. He aims to help people find their strengths and practical steps they can use between meetings.
He describes progress as a process of steady reinvention rather than a single fix. Terry offers a mix of short-term coaching-style work and longer therapeutic work. He also provides clinical supervision and has experience working with diverse populations and complex co-occurring concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and he accepts international clients.
How Terry’s Methods Work Online
Terry often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it offers practical steps and short exercises to practice between sessions. He also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships; EFT can be helpful when connection and emotional response cycles cause recurring conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Terry discusses goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together the therapist and client shape a plan that may combine methods and change over time as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make regular work easier to fit into life. Video lets people work face-to-face when that matters, phone calls use less bandwidth, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and try strategies in real time while balancing work, family, and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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