Terri Ellerbe-Graves, LCMHC

Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years of experience in the helping field. She focuses on practical steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life shifts. Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental to help people feel comfortable talking about hard things.

She helps clients build coping strategies, set healthy boundaries, and practice core skills that support daily life. Terri often works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleep disturbances, and parenting stress. She also addresses mood and attention differences like bipolar disorder and ADHD, as well as relationship and identity concerns including LGBT matters.

Her work draws on several evidence-informed approaches. Terri uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns that keep problems going and acceptance-based ideas to tolerate strong emotions while moving toward meaningful goals. She also uses attachment-focused and client-centered methods to strengthen trust and collaboration in sessions.

She welcomes frank conversation and aims to create a space without judgment, where difficult memories and fears can be named and worked through. Terri’s practical orientation means sessions often include concrete exercises, skill practice, and clear plans to try between visits.

Terri practices in North Carolina and conducts therapy in English. People who choose to work with her start by completing a short questionnaire and then scheduling according to therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while they take steps toward what matters. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and making values-based life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing new strategies to change them, which often helps with mood, sleep, and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions, helping people address intimacy, grief, and trust issues.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there they decide together which ideas and exercises to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit visits into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when a quick touchpoint helps, and offer alternatives when someone prefers not to be on camera. Licensed professionals adapt exercises and homework for remote work so skill practice and coping plans remain practical and actionable.