Terry Wood, CAC-AD

Written by: Shlomo Hoffman

Last Updated: Jul 29, 2021

Terry Wood, MA, CAC-AD, Counselor, has been in the addiction counseling field “since the previous century.” She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and of Bowie State University, where she earned a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. She began her career with Prince George’s County Health Department in College Park and joined the staff at Avenues in 1992. She has worked in many capacities in this program, but she has an ongoing devotion to the family education and outpatient components of treatment.

Terry has been married since 1990. She and her husband, Allen, have many children and grandchildren that they claim as their own since she is a mother to two adult daughters, step mother to three and honorary (foster) mother and grandmother to many much-loved family members.

In addition to her counseling experience, Terry is also a licensed mortician at funeral home in Calvert County, which gives her special insight into the dynamics between grief, loss and addiction.

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