About Holly
Holly Caruso is a licensed counselor with twenty years of experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She brings a steady, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Holly works with individuals facing life changes, trauma, relationship strain, and questions about identity and self worth.
Holly uses approaches that center the person in the room, helping people name what matters to them and set achievable goals.
Background and approach
She mixes client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thoughts and develop new habits. Mindfulness techniques are used to build calm and reduce reactivity during stressful moments. Her background includes licensure as an LCPC and as an LMHC, and she practices in Florida.
Over two decades she has supported people through grief, addiction, career transitions, parenting challenges, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. Her work also addresses concerns tied to attachment, abandonment, and caregiver stress. Sessions are aimed at clear, usable outcomes like better sleep, fewer panic episodes, improved communication, or stronger boundaries.
Holly often combines short-term problem solving with longer work on identity, self esteem, and processing painful experiences. She favors an approach that is compassionate but practical. People who choose Holly can expect an empathic listener who offers tools and homework to try between sessions.
She frames therapy as a collaboration, helping clients test what works and adjust the plan as needs change.
How Holly’s Approaches Work Online
Holly uses client-centered therapy to ground sessions in each person's priorities, listening closely before offering suggestions. This approach is useful when someone needs a space to sort values, identity questions, or relationship concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. That method is often used for panic, social anxiety, and mood management.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. Holly will work with each person to identify goals and try strategies that match those goals. She adjusts the plan as progress is made, combining gentle exploration with hands-on exercises when helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so scheduling is more flexible. Video is useful for a fuller conversational experience, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing homework and short updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to keep steady momentum toward goals.
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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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