About Holly
Holly Goodman is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. Holly combines warmth and straightforward guidance so clients feel heard and respected from the start.
Holly uses practical, conversational methods in sessions. She helps people notice patterns that keep problems going and then practices different ways to respond. Her work often includes short-term coaching around work-life balance and career concerns as needed.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and psychodynamic ideas. That mix lets clients clarify what matters, learn new skills, and understand deeper patterns that affect mood and relationships. She also uses solution-focused and motivational strategies to set clear, manageable goals.
Over thirty years Holly has supported people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting challenges. She also works with concerns such as anger, bipolar mood challenges, caregiving and end-of-life matters. Sessions emphasize practical steps and steady progress rather than jargon.
Holly aims to create an accepting, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard topics and try new approaches. She helps people set realistic goals and track small wins. The focus is on clearer thinking, better coping, and more satisfying relationships.
How Holly’s approaches translate to online therapy
Holly commonly draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping clients set the topics they want to work on, which can make remote sessions feel collaborative and respectful. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and practices small experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which works well over video or phone when homework and skill practice are assigned.She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and stay engaged. That approach is conversational and goal-oriented, so it fits naturally into short check-ins or longer sessions and helps clarify commitment to change. Holly will work with each person to decide which combination of approaches best fits their needs and goals in a collaborative way.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a workday. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, brief support, or tracking progress between sessions. These options give flexibility to match the format to scheduling, comfort, and treatment goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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