Terri Shafer
Since joining Healing Hearts Counseling in 2026, Terri has helped clients navigate life’s challenges with compassion, self-reflection, and a whole-hearted approach that honors the connection between mind, body, and spirit.
Terri Shafer is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with more than twenty years of experience in counseling, community mental health, higher education, and private practice.
Terri is a graduate of Spoon River College and Illinois State University and earned her master’s degree in education and interdisciplinary studies from Western Illinois University. Her professional background includes working as a counselor, campus director, part-time faculty member, and private practice clinician. She is a member of the Illinois Counseling Association and the West Central Illinois Professional Counseling Association, and she currently serves as treasurer of the Illinois College Counseling Association.
Terri supports clients through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship concerns, addiction and recovery, OCD, chronic illness, caregiving stress, LGBTQ+ issues, spirituality, and life transitions. She has experience working with PTSD, sexual assault, childhood abuse, grief, and physical and emotional trauma.
Her therapeutic approach incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, self-compassion, and Internal Family Systems therapy. Terri believes in whole-hearted living and the connection between mind, body, and spirit as an important part of healing and overall wellness.
Outside the office, Terri enjoys spending time with family and friends, living a country life, flower and vegetable gardening, and helping on the farm whenever possible. She is also active in her community, her church, and volunteers with her local county fair and 4-H organization.