Terra Lilkendey, Ed.S.

Clinician

Terra (she/they) is a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern at the Nook. Terra has attained her Masters and Specialist degrees in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida. Terra also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Terra’s life focus has been to support, educate, and advocate for children and adolescents. The majority of their clinical work has concentrated on providing safe spaces for young clients to process trauma, life transitions, and a variety of other challenges. Terra has worked to support children and teens through anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidality, ADHD, divorce/family challenges, emotional regulation, and trauma. She is dedicated to providing children with the language and tools to support their social and emotional growth. Additionally, Terra is highly passionate about providing trauma-informed services to those with marginalized identities. Specifically, they have extensive clinical experience supporting the identity work of those within the LGBTQIA+ community.

Terra’s counseling style is primarily child-centered, systemic, and strengths-based. Terra works to provide a safe, comforting, non-judgmental, and warm space where clients are free to express themselves genuinely. To do this she also works to make sure her counseling is intersectional, multicultural, social-justice-oriented, and trauma-informed. Terra believes strongly in the power of the therapeutic relationship and the insight a client holds in themselves.

In sessions, Terra provides an understanding, warm, compassionate, engaging, and comforting presence. Terra believes deeply that every person is valuable and is deserving of respect, safety, and compassion. They work to walk alongside their clients as they navigate through their journeys.

Outside the office, Terra loves reading, baking, watching movies and TV shows, and spending time with their pets and loved ones.

“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” – Carl Rogers