About Terry
Terry Brewer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has provided counseling since 2009. He brings 15 years of experience working in residential facilities, correctional settings, and through online services. Terry aims to help people facing addiction, mood concerns, relationship strain, and major life changes.
He describes his style as relationship-centered, straightforward, and validating, with gentle challenges when needed. Sessions focus on respectful conversation and building goals from the client's values.
Background and approach
He emphasizes autonomy and avoids shaming or critical approaches. Terry combines practical strategies with emotion-focused work. He uses cognitive and dialectical methods alongside motivational interviewing and other approaches.
That mix helps people who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, and substance use find clearer steps forward. His background includes work with family conflict, parenting concerns, intimacy-related issues, anger, and chronic stress. He also has experience addressing abandonment, attachment questions, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver strain, and co-occurring problems like chronic illness and addiction.
Clients can expect a tailored plan that fits their situation. Terry notes he balances an outside full-time job with counseling and communicates regularly by messaging when live sessions are not possible. He practices in Indiana and offers services to people both inside and outside the United States.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Terry uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small steps to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that feed stress.He also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills can help with strong emotions, relationship conflicts, and impulsive behaviors by offering concrete tools to practice.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring. That plan may mix approaches and evolve over time as progress is made.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging works well for short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English