Terri Chester , LCMHC

Background

Terri Chester, LCMHC, based in North Carolina, bringing 31 years of clinical practice.

Terri is a graduate of a master’s degree in counseling from Appalachian State University (Boone, NC 1989) and an advanced certificate in expressive arts therapy from the European Graduate School of Expressive Arts Therapy (Leuk-Stadt, Switzerland, 1999).

Specialties

Terri's practice areas include stress and anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

Terri works with anxiety/depression/anger management, grief and loss, processing past and recent trauma, current life events, blending of families, and deaths.

Methods

Terri's practice integrates Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Jungian Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy.

Terri uses strength-based and client-centered approaches and cognitive and/or cognitive-behavioral techniques.

Style and philosophy

Terri describes: My therapeutic approach is client-centered and individualized.

Terri describes: I believe that therapy is a collaborative process.

Terri aims to work together with you to identify and learn skills for coping with and expressing emotions, practicing self-care, problem-solving, decision-making, planning and pursuing new life directions.