About Holly
Holly Powell is a licensed clinical social worker with an MD and LCSW-C credential and 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, anger, trauma, mood concerns, and ADHD. Her tone in sessions is calm and steady, and she aims to make visits feel approachable and straightforward.
Holly often begins with a client-centered, solution-focused way of working. That means she listens first to what matters most and sets short-term goals with each person.
Background and approach
From there she adapts methods based on those goals, adding cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, or other techniques as needed. She has a long background in settings that involved attachment and trauma work. That experience shaped how she notices relationship patterns and emotional responses.
She uses that understanding to help people spot unhelpful habits and try small changes that make daily life easier. Holly also draws on EMDR and mindfulness practices when those approaches fit a person's needs. She explains each option plainly and helps people choose what feels most useful for their situation.
Sessions focus on practical steps, coping strategies, and learning new ways to handle stress and strong emotions. Working from Maryland, Holly offers conversations that aim to be clear and paced to each person. She welcomes questions and takes time to match methods to goals rather than following a single recipe.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Holly commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people online. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely, reflecting what matters most, and shaping sessions around each person's priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical tools to change them.She also integrates attachment-based ideas when relationship patterns show up. That approach helps people recognize how early connections influence current responses and learn new ways to relate and regulate emotions. Holly will talk through these options and together decide which approach or combination fits a person's needs and goals.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives while keeping the work collaborative and focused on real goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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