About Walter
Walter Holloway, LPC, focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or big life changes. He offers a calm, straightforward approach meant to help someone regain balance and find clearer ways to cope. Short conversations in a session lead to practical steps clients can try between meetings.
He has 16 years of clinical experience in Georgia and works with concerns such as depression, self-esteem, anger, and addiction.
Background and approach
He also supports people facing loneliness, communication problems, grief, trauma, and struggles around intimacy and sexual health. Walter pays attention to issues that often show up together, like sleep trouble, eating concerns, and ADHD-related challenges. His style blends listening with tools.
Sessions often start with what matters most to the client, then move toward specific skills and small goals. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques, along with Client-Centered and mindfulness approaches, to help people notice patterns and try different ways of responding. People who want clear steps and a supportive listener tend to do well with his approach.
He aims to make sessions feel practical rather than overwhelming, focusing on one change at a time. Walter also brings attention to identity and LGBT concerns when relevant, keeping the person’s background in mind. Outside of session work he emphasizes coaching-style guidance for career questions and compassion fatigue.
He encourages clients to practice simple coping strategies between meetings and to track what helps so sessions stay focused and useful.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Walter uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people understand and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; this approach suits issues like anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. He also applies Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills, which can be helpful when stress or intense emotions feel overwhelming. He draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions grounded in the person’s own goals and values, offering a listening stance that informs which tools to try.Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping sessions practical and focused on small, achievable steps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good fit when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or school routines while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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