Terri Ellerbe-Graves

Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 23 years in the helping field. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, or changes like parenting and caregiving. Her style is nonjudgmental and direct, intended to help someone feel heard and understood from the first session.

She focuses on building coping skills, clearer boundaries, and routines that fit daily life. Terri helps clients work through trauma, anger, intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and issues related to ADHD and bipolar disorder. She also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, attachment, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness, and body image.

Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current connection. Terri also incorporates Client-Centered and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas when they suit someone’s needs.

Terri practices in North Carolina and works in English. She aims to match practical tools to each person’s goals, helping them take small steps that add up to real change. The work tends to be collaborative and focused on skills you can use outside sessions.

To begin, she asks new clients to pick the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling based on availability.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, purposeful steps toward those values while learning to accept hard emotions. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to change outcomes, which can help with depression, sleep problems, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and supports changing how someone connects with others, often useful for relationship and intimacy concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Terri will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods match their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than deciding everything up front.

Session formats are not listed in the original biography, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online sessions useful for fitting therapy into a busy week, keeping check-ins brief when needed, or avoiding travel time. Online work can make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to bring everyday problems into the conversation for real-time problem solving.