About Holly
Holly Varona is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and guides those coping with depression and trauma. Holly aims to create a calm, steady space where people can talk honestly about what hurts and what they want to change.
Holly draws from both Eastern and Western ideas and tailors sessions to each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses practical conversation and gentle challenge to help people understand patterns tied to attachment, abandonment, and family of origin concerns. She also supports people navigating relationship issues, communication problems, and commitment questions. People who struggle with body image, eating and food-related issues, chronic pain or illness, and self-esteem concerns can expect straightforward tools to manage symptoms and make daily life easier.
Holly has experience working with people who identify across diverse communities, including LGBTQIA+ and consensual non-monogamy and kink cultures. She adapts her approach to respect each person's values and identity. Sessions often include paced reflection, skill-building, and planning small steps between meetings.
Holly helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice different responses, and rebuild a sense of agency after traumatic experiences. The work moves at the client's pace and focuses on usable changes. Holly communicates in English.
She practices with attention to cultural context and personal history. Her goal is to help people move from surviving toward more meaningful connection and confidence.
Approaches that guide online work and what to expect
Holly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques drawn from both Eastern and Western approaches. One approach focuses on present-moment awareness and gentle acceptance to reduce intense emotional reactions and manage anxiety symptoms. This method helps people notice feelings and respond with less reactivity rather than getting caught up in them.Another commonly used approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying more balanced responses. It teaches practical skills for stress management, improved communication, and tackling depressive thinking by testing beliefs and practicing new behaviors between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Holly discusses goals, preferences, and the issues that brought someone to therapy, then recommends methods to try. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helpful for each person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer frequent, brief check-ins and flexibility for people who prefer written communication. These options aim to make therapy more accessible and fit into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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