Terri Ellerbe-Graves

Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years in the helping field. She aims to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, relationships, grief, or past trauma. Terri focuses on building coping skills, setting healthy boundaries, and strengthening core tools so daily life feels more manageable.

She uses straightforward, modern approaches to therapy. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can use between meetings, like coping strategies and behavior changes. Terri emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly about worries, shame, or painful memories.

Her background includes long experience with mood and anxiety concerns, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy challenges. She also supports people facing parenting strain, sleep problems, ADHD, and complex medical or caregiving stress. That experience informs how she tailors treatment to each person’s situation.

Terri draws on therapies that teach skills and explore attachment patterns. She helps clients try small changes and notice what works. Progress is measured in clearer choices, fewer reactive moments, and increased ability to handle life changes.

Sessions are guided by the client’s goals and pace. To begin, a short matching process connects people to scheduling. Terri works from North Carolina and conducts sessions in English for local clients.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help people improve trust, closeness, and relationship reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted over time if something isn’t helping.

This biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during work breaks or between appointments. Some methods lend themselves to short skills practice or workbook-style tasks that translate well to remote meetings, while others focus on relationship patterns that can be discussed by video or phone. Ask about session length and format when scheduling to find what fits your routine.