About Holly
Holly Duffy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience helping people make concrete changes in their lives. She focuses on goals you set, and shapes sessions to match your needs. Her work emphasizes connection, creativity, and clear steps people can try between meetings.
Holly practices in California and offers services in English. Holly’s style blends practical techniques with creative options. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment and emotionally focused ideas to improve how people relate to others. At times she brings in expressive methods when they support self-esteem or emotional growth. People come to Holly for many concerns including stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, depression and bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, grief, addictions, parenting strain, and career stress.
She also works with more specific issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and dissociation. Her approach is tailored so sessions target the problem you bring in. Holly aims for sessions that feel warm and honest.
She helps clients turn insights into actions with short practical steps. Conversations may be simple talk, creative exercises, or a mix depending on what fits the person and the goal. To begin, Holly asks people to share their goals and current struggles so she can shape a plan together.
She supports people who want steady progress, practical tools, and a collaborative working relationship.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Holly commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based approaches to help clients make changes and repair relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in behavior and daily habits to reduce stress and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people develop more supported ways of relating to others, which can ease relationship and intimacy concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Holly collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She may use a more practical CBT focus for habit change or bring in attachment and emotionally focused ideas when relationships are central to the problem.
Online therapy enables the same therapeutic tools through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you meet face to face for deep conversation and emotional work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins, real-time coping skills, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules, travel, or when an in-person visit is not practical.
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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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