Terri Ellerbe-Graves, LCMHC
North Carolina · 23 years in practice
Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years in the helping field.
License and registration
- LCMHC, North Carolina
- 11187 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1356748651 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 23
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Terri
Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years in the helping field. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Her work centers on building coping skills, setting healthy boundaries, and developing core tools people can use after sessions end.
Terri uses straightforward methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. She also supports those facing trauma, relationship struggles, intimacy concerns, sleeping problems, ADHD, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She offers approaches that aim to reduce shame and make talking about hard things less frightening. In sessions Terri emphasizes collaboration. She listens first, then suggests skills and strategies tailored to each person’s goals.
She combines talk-based work with concrete exercises so change can happen between meetings as well as during them. Her training includes acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-focused work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavior strategies, and dialectical behavior ideas. Terri draws on these tools to help people notice patterns, change unhelpful habits, and build steady coping plans.
Terri practices in North Carolina and conducts therapy in English. She frames therapy as a step-by-step process and helps people move from feeling stuck toward clearer choices and healthier routines.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Terri lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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 natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Terri names
- 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
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing valued actions. It helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit the person's needs. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer brief, flexible ways to update a therapist or work through tools between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or other demands.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Terri commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, relationship and intimacy issues, sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, self-esteem problems, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
What is the therapy style like in sessions?
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Expect listening, practical skill building, boundary work, and exercises to practice between meetings.
What background and experience does she bring?
She has 23 years in the helping field and has worked with a wide range of concerns across many settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LCMHC credential and practices in North Carolina.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not accepted at this time.
Which session formats are offered?
Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
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