About Terri
Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and offers steady, nonjudgmental support so people can start making small, practical changes. Terri draws on 23 years of experience in the helping field to guide that work.
She focuses on building coping skills, healthy boundaries, and core tools that work in daily life. She encourages gentle progress rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
Terri makes space for difficult feelings and helps people name what they need next. Her approach blends body-centered work with evidence-based strategies. That means paying attention to physical tension and breath as well as thoughts and emotions.
She also uses therapies that look at relationships and how early bonds shape current patterns. Sessions are framed around clear goals and practical steps. Terri supports people who want help with parenting stress, grief, intimacy struggles, sleep problems, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and identity or LGBT concerns.
She also works with issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and attachment struggles, and codependency. Terri practices from North Carolina and offers sessions in English. She aims to create a calm, straightforward space where people can try new ways of coping and test changes between sessions.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress or trauma shows up in the body. Online sessions can include guidance on noticing breath, posture, and tension, then trying simple body-based practices that help regulate nerves and reduce reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people experiment with new ways of relating and setting boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaboration includes checking in about what helps, adjusting techniques, and mixing body work with talk-based strategies as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving. They also let people practice skills between meetings and check in in shorter, more frequent ways when helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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