Terri E Laine

Terri McCrea is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. She has provided counseling for the past 31 years (23 years of that in private practice). She graduated from St. Andrews Parish High School and the College of Charleston before receiving her Master's Degree in Clinical Counseling from The Citadel. She is an Adjunct Professor, a Licensed Addiction Counselor, a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor and served as a Continuing Education provider for the South Carolina Board for Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Marital and Family Therapists, Psychologists and Psycho-educational Specialists. She conducts local and national workshops on her 20 books as well as a Life Skills Summer Camp (ages five to eighteen), parenting classes, domestic violence classes and anger management classes. She is the Outreach Coordinator of the Old Bethel United Methodist Church's Community Outreach Program. This platform provides preventative, educational, rehabilitative, counseling, and evangelistic services to the Low Country's at-risk youths, families (including the elderly, poor, imprisoned, homeless, disabled and indigent).Terri writes mental health articles for local magazines and newspapers. She guest appears for mental health segments on local radio and television networks. She can be described as a coach, counselor, visionary, poet, free spirit and believer that everyone and everything has a purpose. She is a member of the Poetry Society of South Carolina (PSSC), the International African American Museum, Old Bethel United Methodist Choir, Gamma Xi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and is a proud aunt and grand aunt. Terri is available for book signings, charity events, public/motivational speaking engagements, workshop facilitation, interviews, and expert appearances (radio, web, television and podcast) and poetry readings. She has self-published six self-help guidebooks, four inspirational guides for couples in love, four empowering guides for tots/tweens/teens, a book of wedding vows (English/Spanish translation), a mantra, proverbs and intentions book, a how-to-date book and her first collection of poems (2007-2020).