About Holly
Holly Cruttenden is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who works with people facing stress, anxiety and life transitions. She holds BACP accreditation and draws on four years of clinical experience to guide conversations and practical steps. Holly aims to make therapy approachable and clear for anyone feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
Her style is straightforward and person-centred. Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and move at a pace that feels manageable.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that cause difficulty and helps people try out different ways of coping. Holly also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and test alternative views. Mindfulness practices are offered to help with grounding and reducing constant worry.
She blends these methods with psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences influence current feelings and reactions. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including self-esteem, family issues, coping with change, and support for LGBT people. Additional areas of focus include autism, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, trauma-related dissociation, and relationship separation.
Holly aims to help people make small, practical changes that add up over time. Sessions are available online by video, phone or messaging, and she meets people across different countries in English. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions to suit their schedule.
How Holly uses approaches online
Holly works with a mix of practical and reflective methods. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and adapting to each person's pace. It helps people feel heard and decide what matters most in their life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers simple experiments and techniques to test anxious thoughts and build new coping habits.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Holly will discuss different options and tailor sessions to a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps identify which techniques suit the issue and the individual’s way of working.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging for greater flexibility. Video calls are useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or when less bandwidth is available, and messaging lets people check in between appointments or use shorter, focused exchanges. These formats make it easier to access therapy from different locations and at varied times, helping therapy fit around life commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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