Terri Ellerbe-Graves, LCMHC

Terri Ellerbe-Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 23 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, ADHD, and blended family issues. She also supports people dealing with grief, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and life transitions.

Terri focuses on building practical coping strategies and clearer boundaries. She uses straightforward tools to reduce overwhelming feelings and improve daily routines. Sessions emphasize skills clients can use between meetings, such as distress tolerance and thought reframing.

Her approach draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused understanding, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral work, and dialectical behavior techniques. That mix lets her match methods to the problem rather than rely on a single tool. She explains techniques in plain terms and practices with a calm, steady style.

People often come with family stress, co-parenting tensions, or the challenges of blending households. Terri talks through communication patterns, loyalty conflicts, and role expectations so individuals can make clearer choices. She also helps with trauma recovery and managing mood conditions in everyday life.

Terri aims to help clients create dependable routines and skills that fit their situations. She encourages small, measurable steps and checks progress as therapy continues. To begin, she asks clients to identify concrete goals and then selects approaches that support those goals.