About Tera
Tera Wilkes is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with seven years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
She concentrates on mood and trauma-related concerns including bipolar disorder, depression, post-traumatic stress, panic disorder, and anxiety, while also addressing relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, parenting challenges, and career or life transitions. Her scope includes LGBT and gender dysphoria matters as well as personality-related concerns such as antisocial traits and paranoia.
Tera uses a collaborative, client-centered stance that invites honest sharing of thoughts and feelings without judgment, and she combines that orientation with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques when helpful. Her approach emphasizes empowerment, practical coping strategies, and building skills to manage stress, compassion fatigue, anger, and self-esteem difficulties.
Tera also offers coaching-style support for clients navigating change and those seeking clearer goals. She provides services in English and conducts sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, clients follow an intake flow that matches them to providers and schedule according to availability. Her license is IL LCPC 180.013382, and she does not accept international clients.
Approaches and Online Care for Practical Change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, nonjudgmental space where clients guide the conversation and feel heard; this approach helps people explore values, process emotions, and build self-understanding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, offering concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, panic symptoms, and mood-related difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is often collaborative rather than prescriptive. The therapist will work with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and may blend client-centered listening with CBT strategies to find the best fit over time. This collaborative process helps tailor interventions to what matters most for the client's day-to-day functioning and long-term aims.
Online therapy with options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging can make it easier to attend regular sessions and to integrate therapeutic tools into daily life. These formats increase flexibility for scheduling, allow continuity during busy periods, and support different communication styles so clients can work in ways that suit their routines and comfort levels.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English