About Terry
Terry Massey is a licensed clinical social worker who brings more than 26 years of experience to therapy. He holds a Master of Social Work and maintains licensure as an LCSW in North Carolina and an LISW-CP in South Carolina. He has worked in mental health and early childhood settings and continues to provide individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy.
Terry’s style focuses on creating a collaborative relationship. He aims to help people connect with their strengths so they can meet life’s challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions use clear, direct conversation and practical tools that clients can try between meetings. He draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help reframe unhelpful thinking and on emotionally focused and existential approaches to address deeper relationship and meaning questions. Imago-based ideas shape how he looks at patterns between partners and family members.
Therapy typically blends talk, skill practice, and reflection to make steady progress. Terry works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career transitions, and ADHD. He also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, sexual diversity and kink-related topics, and complex personality and attachment issues.
Sessions are offered in English and he provides services to international clients as well. He has a long history supervising clinicians and consulting with community agencies, which informs his practical, systems-aware approach to care.
How Terry blends therapeutic approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful for building trust and exploring personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotional bonding and interaction patterns, making it helpful for couples and people wanting to improve intimacy and connection.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Terry collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. He may combine approaches so clients get practical tools and space for deeper emotional change over time.
Online formats allow therapy to fit into busy lives. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can serve for quick reflections or updates between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people keep therapy consistent across locations and time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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