About Holly
Holly Duffy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years helping people set clear goals and make real changes. She blends straightforward conversation with creative tools to help people manage emotions, behavior, and relationships. Holly keeps sessions warm and connected while staying honest and practical when needed.
Her work centers on understanding each person as unique and tailoring support to fit their needs. She often uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Creative or expressive techniques are added when they support self-esteem or relationship growth. Holly offers simple talk therapy as well when that is a better fit. She listens, reflects, and suggests small action steps people can practice between sessions.
Those steps are meant to help with daily goals, mood, and coping skills. Clients see her for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also helps with career stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and changes like adoption or aging.
Her style is approachable and artistic but focused on practical results. Holly aims to help people feel more motivated, satisfied, and able to handle life’s challenges. To begin, she asks people to describe their goals and then customizes a plan to fit those aims.
Approaches that translate to online work
Attachment-based therapy emphasizes safety in relationships and helps people notice patterns that affect closeness and trust; it can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns, and attachment struggles. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through small, practical steps and is often used for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related habits. Emotionally-focused therapy concentrates on identifying and expressing emotions in a way that improves connection and reduces reactivity in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That means trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress and needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins, chat can be helpful for brief reflections, and messaging supports ongoing coaching or between-session communication. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, quieter surroundings, and different levels of interaction while working toward personal goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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