About Holly
Holly Erskine is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She works with people facing self-esteem concerns and major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy practical and understandable for busy parents.
Holly frames difficulties as understandable reactions to life events. She brings a trauma-informed outlook and focuses on creating a steady, respectful space to talk through hard experiences.
Background and approach
Early sessions focus on building rapport, clarifying goals, and deciding what to try first. She combines several evidence-based strategies to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers real skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive actions. Mindfulness practices are used to increase present-moment awareness and reduce rumination. Holly has worked in mental health since 2008 and has about 15 years of experience.
That background includes extensive work with trauma-related symptoms, mood disorders, and emotion regulation challenges. She also supports people coping with dissociation, seasonal mood shifts, and the impact of assault or abuse. In sessions she prioritizes collaboration and clear goals.
Therapy often includes skill teaching, short-term problem solving, and space to make sense of painful memories. People can expect frank conversation, practical tools, and steady support while they work toward changes that matter to them.
How Holly’s approaches translate to online therapy
Holly commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT sessions focus on specific problems, short-term goals, and steps you can practice between meetings.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. DBT-style work is skill-based and can help with strong emotions, impulsivity, and self-harm urges when they arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Holly will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, skill coaching, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue consistent work on anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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