About Holly
Holly Spire is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of practice in New York. She focuses on anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Holly approaches sessions with respect for each person's experience and practical steps that fit daily life.
Her work centers on listening closely and helping people name what feels overwhelming. She draws on client-centered methods to build a collaboration where the client's goals guide each session.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and somatic techniques are used to help people notice how their body and breath respond to stress. Holly also brings trauma-focused approaches when past harm shapes current struggles. She supports people working through sexual assault, domestic violence, post-traumatic stress, and narcissistic harm.
She offers ways to manage symptoms and to rebuild a sense of safety and self-worth. For concerns related to body image, eating and food issues, cancer or caregiver stress, Holly focuses on practical coping and steady emotional support. She helps people identify small, manageable steps to feel more in control day to day.
Sessions emphasize clear tools that can be used between meetings. Holly believes clients know their own stories and that change starts from that knowledge. She encourages a slow, steady pace and recognizes that starting therapy takes courage.
Her style is warm, direct, and grounded in real-life solutions.
Approach, trauma care, and online options
Holly uses client-centered therapy to put the person's priorities first, helping them set goals and guide the pace of work. This approach emphasizes listening, respect, and practical solutions that match a person's life. Mindfulness Therapy is also part of her toolkit and focuses on simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce anxiety and react less to distressing thoughts.She incorporates trauma-focused strategies when past events continue to affect daily functioning. These methods aim to help people name what happened, lessen overwhelming reactions, and build safer routines. Holly works collaboratively to choose which approaches fit each person's needs and preferences rather than following a single path.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, short-form contact between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules while exploring what methods feel most helpful.
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What this therapist works with
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- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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