About Terry
Terry Sloan is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 22 years of practice. She brings a calm, steady presence and listens for the meaningful parts of each person's story. Terry focuses on helping people cope with stress and anxiety and the hard turns life can bring.
She believes growth often comes during transitions. When relationships change, work shifts, or grief arrives, she helps people spot new choices and move forward.
Background and approach
Terry pays close attention to how people talk to themselves and to others, and she uses those conversations to guide sessions. Terry works from an attachment-informed perspective to help people build or strengthen support networks. She often combines that view with client-centered techniques that center each person's experience.
Cognitive behavioral tools are used when helpful to address patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety, sleep problems, or mood concerns. People come to her for a wide range of issues, including relationship strain, grief, compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, and panic attacks. She also supports clients dealing with life purpose, self-esteem, and forgiveness work.
Terry lists LGBT concerns and caregiver stress among the topics she addresses. Sessions are conversational and practical. Terry encourages small experiments between meetings, clearer communication, and steady steps toward goals.
She welcomes working with people ready to take a closer look at how their history and attachments shape their present choices.
Attachment-informed and practical approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on how early relationships shape current connections and coping. It helps people understand patterns in their close relationships and build stronger support systems when feeling alone, anxious, or overwhelmed. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing the person's experience without judgment and following their priorities; it helps people feel seen and guides goal setting at a comfortable pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used alongside these approaches, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and habits and offers simple exercises to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Terry works with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, values, and day-to-day life. Sessions usually mix listening, reflection, and practical exercises so people can try small changes between meetings and report back on what helps.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their schedule and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or on-the-go reflections. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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