Terri Davis
Compassionate, practical support for family and relationship stress
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon, Alabama
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Terri
Terri Davis is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns and related relationship issues. She brings a calm, down-to-earth approach and ten years of clinical experience. Terri emphasizes practical steps and clear conversations so parents can find workable solutions.
She values each person’s strengths and treats them as the expert of their own story. Terri uses straightforward methods to address intimacy, communication, and motivation. Sessions often include goal-setting and skills practice to build confidence and reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation skills. For couples and family stressors she incorporates techniques from the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change.
Solution-Focused Therapy is used to identify small, practical steps that move things forward. Terri holds LICSW and LCSW credentials - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and is licensed in Oregon. Her background includes helping people cope with grief, life transitions, caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, and work-related stress.
She also addresses issues such as forgiveness, guilt, body image, and commitment concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Terri accepts international clients. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Cost varies with location and sessions operate on a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How Terri’s Approaches Work Online
Terri commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors to identify small changes that improve mood and everyday choices. It suits problems like low confidence, anxiety about parenting, and coping with life changes. The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication between partners and reducing repeated patterns of conflict, which can help with family tensions and intimacy issues.She treats approach selection as a joint process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and everyday realities, then suggest methods that seem like a good fit. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy families. Video calls let participants read nonverbal cues and practice communication in real time. Phone sessions work when a video setup isn’t possible. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum while balancing work, caregiving, and other demands.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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