Terri Ellerbe-Graves, LCMHC

Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years in the helping field. She focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or life-change challenges. Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping people build coping skills, set healthy boundaries, and feel less overwhelmed.

Terri uses cognitive behavioral therapy as one of her core approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based ideas to support emotional growth and clearer relationships. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with tools you can use between meetings.

Her work covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, anger, intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting stress, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and commitment or attachment struggles.

Terri practices in North Carolina and offers services in English. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about fears and painful memories. Her approach is to help people grow, heal, and move toward the life they want.

Getting started uses a simple subscription model that can be canceled at any time. New clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Terri commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors that reduce distress and improve daily functioning. CBT is practical and often focuses on small experiments and skill practice between sessions.

She also incorporates acceptance and commitment therapy which helps people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps toward values-based goals. Attachment-based ideas are used to explore relationship patterns and to build clearer emotional connections with others.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques from these approaches that fit best. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when that helps; phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for easier scheduling. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins, quick skill coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to get help around work, school, or caregiving commitments while using approaches like CBT, ACT, and attachment work.