About Holly
Holly Caruso is a licensed counselor with twenty years of clinical experience. She practices as an LCPC and an LMHC and helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Her style is straightforward and client-focused, aimed at making therapy useful and understandable for busy lives.
Holly creates a calm, accepting atmosphere where people can talk through identity concerns, relationship questions, and the fallout from past hurts. She listens for each person’s priorities and helps them set small, practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on what is most pressing in everyday life rather than abstract theory. Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s perspective. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and to test small behavioral shifts.
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused steps are woven in to build coping tools that people can use between sessions. Holly has supported people with life transitions, grief, career stress, and issues tied to attachment and relationships. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and to concrete skills that reduce distress.
Her approach balances listening with active problem solving. People who choose Holly usually want clear steps and practical strategies alongside empathic listening. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions are offered in English and are based in Florida.
How Holly’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Holly uses client-centered therapy to keep the sessions focused on each person’s priorities, hopes, and comfort level. That means sessions often begin with the client’s agenda and move at a pace the client prefers, which works well in video or chat formats.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioral experiments. CBT techniques can be practiced between sessions and reviewed during video or phone calls to track progress and adjust strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Holly collaborates with clients to choose which methods fit their goals and routines. Together they set small, testable goals, then adapt techniques based on what helps most in everyday life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth or camera time is limited, and live chat or text messaging work for brief check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, follow up between appointments, and try tools in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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