Mission Statement

It is the mission of Still Waters Counseling Services to partner with individuals and families and enable them to discover their potential, enrich their lives, and develop healthier relationships.

About the Counselor

Terri Ogden is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor with over 14 years experience in community mental health.  She graduated from Ball State University with a Masters in counseling psychology – community.  Licensed in 2001 with the Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board, she spent 12 years with the Otis R. Bowen Center in Warsaw, Indiana prior to relocation to the south Indianapolis area where she served as supervisor for the adolescent addictions program at Wishard-Midtown.

During her tenure in community mental health centers, she provided individual, family, marital, and group therapy.  Terri has had extensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and provided services to the chronically mentally ill as well as higher functioning adolescents and adults.  She served as liaison to the Kosciusko County courts, DCS, and the probation department also providing services for parents of abused children and court-ordered treatments; including addictions.  Terri developed, in conjunction with the judicial system, classes for divorcing parents which included skills for effective co-parenting with reduced conflict.  She has done extensive work with Women’s Issues; primarily women who had experienced childhood abuses and present with dual diagnosis.  She was one of the few therapists in the organization who served the adolescent population.  In addition to outpatient services, Terri provided education and supervision for master level interns and peers.

Terri’s primary treatment interventions include always education and skill building.  She focuses on a cognitive-behavioral style which research has demonstrated to be most effective and is listed under “Best Practice”.  Cognitive-behavioral therapy uncovers and restructures the underlying “scripts” , or filters of interpretation that underwrite the client’s responses to the world and people around them.

Terri is the mother of three daughters.  She has been a member of Tri Kappa community sorority, girls’ softball coach and participated in hurricane Katrina relief stationed in New Orleans.  She is currently a member of the Rotary International.