Counseling
Psychotherapy for experiences that have changed the way life is lived
People come to counseling for many reasons. Sometimes something has happened.
Sometimes something has been happening for a very long time. Sometimes the difficulty is clear, and sometimes there is simply a sense that the way things have been held is no longer working.
Still Point provides psychotherapy for adults navigating grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, difficult relationships, life transitions, identity, and experiences that have disrupted a sense of safety, connection, or continuity.
Therapy may involve understanding what happened, attending to what continues to affect the present, exploring patterns and relationships, working with traumatic experience, or considering what—if anything—you want to be different.
The work does not begin with an assumption about who you should become.
Virtual counseling in South Carolina & North Carolina • In-person counseling in South Carolina
What Brings People to Therapy?
Grief & Traumatic Loss
When loss changes more than one thing Grief can affect relationships, identity, safety, memory, the future, and the way someone understands themselves and the world around them. Therapy may include grief following expected or unexpected death, suicide, traumatic or violent death, complicated relationships with the person who died, ambiguous loss, or losses that remain difficult to name. The goal is not to prescribe a correct way to grieve or require grief to become something else.
Trauma & EMDR
When what happened continues to be present
Traumatic experiences can remain active in the body, relationships, beliefs, memory, and responses to the present long after the original event has ended.
Terri is an experienced EMDR clinician, EMDRIA-approved consultant and trainer. EMDR and other trauma-informed and somatic approaches may be incorporated when appropriate to the person, the experience, and the goals of therapy.
A modality is a tool, not the destination.
Anxiety, Depression & Emotional Distress
When living has become harder to inhabit
Anxiety and depression can take many forms: fear, exhaustion, disconnection, dread, irritability, numbness, hopelessness, overwhelm, or a sense that familiar ways of managing life are no longer enough.
Therapy can provide space to understand what is happening, what may be contributing to it, and what the person wants from treatment without reducing the person to a diagnosis or symptom list.
Clinical concerns are taken seriously without assuming that a diagnosis explains the whole person.
Relationships, Identity & Change
When who you are is changing—or no longer feels certain
Relationships, roles, identity, family systems, aging, caregiving, separation, loss, career changes, and other transitions can disturb assumptions that once felt settled.
Therapy can offer a place to examine what has changed, what remains, what belongs to you, what may have been inherited or expected, and how you want to understand yourself within the relationships and systems around you.
Uncertainty does not have to be resolved before it can be explored.
First Responders & High-Exposure Professionals
First responders, healthcare professionals, law enforcement, and others in high-exposure professions may encounter traumatic events, cumulative loss, responsibility, moral complexity, death, and human suffering as part of ordinary professional life.
As a former paramedic, Terri brings both clinical expertise and familiarity with the cultures, humor, expectations, and realities of high-exposure work.
Therapy can address trauma, grief, cumulative exposure, relationships, identity, transitions out of the profession, and whatever else has followed someone home.
Experiences That Don't Fit Neatly
Some experiences are difficult to categorize. They may involve dreams, unusual perceptions, spiritual or extraordinary experiences, questions about reality or meaning, bodily experiences, contradictions, or simply a persistent sense that something important is being missed.
Therapy can make room to examine an experience carefully without automatically dismissing it, pathologizing it, or assigning an explanation that the evidence cannot support.
We can take an experience seriously without pretending to know more about it than we do.