About Ida
Ida Terry uses a client-centered approach to help people manage addiction, relationship strain, grief, depression, and major life transitions. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience and offers straightforward, compassionate care in Oregon and to international clients in English. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Sessions often look at patterns that keep problems going, and then build small, manageable changes. Ida leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and to shape healthier behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Narrative Therapy ideas to help people reframe life stories that no longer serve them. Many people seek her help for addiction and process-related concerns such as drug and alcohol issues, gambling, or porn and exercise addiction. She also supports people dealing with family problems, blended family challenges, parenting stress, and relationship or intimacy issues.
Trauma, abuse, anger, low self-esteem, and issues tied to prejudice or multicultural stress are part of her work as well. Ida brings experience with first responder and veteran concerns, and she includes discussions about values and life purpose when that is helpful. Her methods include Motivational Interviewing to build readiness for change and existential ideas to address meaning and choice.
Therapy can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, people select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Ida commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as part of her online practice. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and creating a supportive space where people can find their own solutions; it helps with emotional processing and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides tools to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which is useful for depression, anxiety, and addiction.She treats approach selection as a team effort. During early sessions she collaborates with each person to understand needs, goals, and preferences and then recommends strategies to try. Adjustments are made as progress and feedback guide the work, so the plan can shift if something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and real-time interaction, while phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, managing day-to-day urges, or fitting therapy into a busy schedule. These options offer flexibility to make consistent therapy easier to maintain.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Arizona, Oregon
- Languages
- English