Terry Massey, LCSW, LISW-CP
Compassionate clinician for relationship and parenting concerns
Book with Terry- Years in practice
- 26
- Credentials
- LCSW, LISW-CP
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Anger management
About Terry
Terry Massey is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 26 years in mental health care. He holds the LCSW and the LISW-CP and practices from North Carolina. Terry combines practical skills with a straightforward style to help people facing relationship and parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and mood difficulties.
Terry draws from many approaches to tailor sessions to each person's needs. He often uses Client-Centered ideas to build trust and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
He also brings elements of Emotionally-Focused and Existential work when clients want to look at deeper meaning or relational patterns. In sessions Terry focuses on clear, usable tools. Parents can expect help with communication, boundary-setting, and coping strategies for family stress.
For people facing grief, trauma, or identity questions he aims to make the next steps manageable and concrete. Over his career Terry has worked across clinical and community settings and provides supervision to other clinicians. That background informs a flexible approach that balances skill teaching with reflective conversation.
He aims to help clients notice strengths they can use between sessions. Terry accepts international clients and offers a range of online formats. He guides people through a practical process to begin therapy and helps them choose the pace and methods that fit their life.
The emphasis is on steady progress and building skills that last.
What Terry works with
Everything Terry lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Terry helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Terry lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Terry’s Approaches Fit Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a real working relationship; it helps when someone needs acceptance and a partner to sort through choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives step-by-step strategies for changing unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotions and attachment in relationships and is useful when people want to improve connection and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Terry treats approach selection as a collaborative process and will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together the client and therapist decide whether to emphasize skill practice, emotional exploration, or a mix of both as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is better, and live chat or text messaging can support brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work lives while keeping the focus on useful strategies and steady progress.
Questions people ask about Terry
What kinds of concerns does Terry address?
He works with relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, addiction issues, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, trauma and grief, and related topics like self-esteem and intimacy.
How would you describe his therapeutic style?
His style blends client-centered listening with practical tools. Sessions tend to pair skill-building with reflective conversation to help people make day-to-day changes.
What is his professional background?
He has 26 years of experience in mental health and early childhood settings, with work spanning individual, couple, family, and group therapy as well as clinical supervision roles.
Where is he licensed and based?
He practices from North Carolina and holds the credentials LCSW and LISW-CP as documented in his profile.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, and he is open to working with international clients.
What session formats are available?
He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different schedules and needs.
How does costing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with him?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to therapist availability.
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