About Holly
Holly Powell is a licensed social worker with an MD and LCSW-C credential. She brings 15 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, attachment concerns, trauma, and anger. Her manner is calm and approachable, and she aims to create space for practical problem solving and steady progress.
Holly often begins with a client-centered, solution-focused stance. She listens to immediate worries and helps set small, clear goals.
Background and approach
From there she may use cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking or EMDR methods when trauma memories need targeted attention. Mindfulness skills are woven into sessions to help with stress and emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing can also appear when someone is working through change or addiction-related choices.
She adapts methods to the goals the person brings rather than using one fixed approach. Her background includes many settings where attachment and developmental concerns were common, so she pays close attention to relationship patterns and how early experiences shape current reactions. That perspective informs how she frames anxiety and mood concerns, and what tools she offers in sessions.
People who choose Holly can expect a steady, respectful presence and practical, step-by-step strategies. She aims to make therapy approachable and useful, whether the focus is grief, parenting stress, ADHD, or coping with life changes.
How Holly’s approaches work in online sessions
Holly commonly uses attachment-based methods that look at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. This approach helps people understand why certain relationships or situations trigger strong anxiety or anger. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Holly will listen to your concerns, review goals, and suggest one or a combination of approaches. She frames decisions as a collaborative process and checks in regularly to see what is or isn’t helping.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work visually and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging offer quick check-ins or written reflection between sessions. These formats are designed to make scheduling simpler and to fit therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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