Terry Sloan, LCMHC

Terry Sloan is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 22 years of experience in North Carolina. She listens for the parts of a person's story that point to change. Terry focuses on practical steps people can take when life shifts feel overwhelming. She prefers short, clear conversations that help people notice what matters most. Sessions often look at how someone talks to themselves and how they connect with others. That work can reduce stress, anxiety, low mood, panic, and trouble sleeping. Terry uses cognitive behavioral ideas alongside attachment-based and client-centered approaches. She helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, strengthen close relationships, and make choices that line up with their values. The focus is on skills you can try between sessions. She works with a broad range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, relationship issues, and the effects of major life changes. Additional areas include abandonment, communication problems, caregiver stress, self-esteem, and seasonal mood shifts. Expect a collaborative style in which the therapist asks questions, reflects what she hears, and suggests small experiments to test new ways of thinking and relating. Terry aims to help people feel more connected to their goals and more capable in daily life.

Approaches that guide online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape feelings and behavior. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships, strengthen support networks, and practice new ways of connecting when stress or loss makes bonds feel strained.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions identify unhelpful thinking, test new perspectives, and build coping strategies for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems.

Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is heard, and follows the client's lead to help clarify goals and values.

Terry approaches therapy as a collaboration. She works with each person to choose the approaches that fit their needs and goals, and adjusts methods as progress unfolds. Deciding what helps most is part of the work together rather than a fixed prescription.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats allow shorter check-ins or ongoing homework support. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.