About Holly
Holly Abbott is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of clinical experience. She practices from Georgia and brings steady, down-to-earth support to people facing relationship, parenting, and life-transition challenges. Her work often includes concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD.
Holly aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first and then helps people set clear goals. Conversations focus on what will help most day to day, whether that means skill building, problem solving, or coaching through a change.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in schools, independent practice, and local agencies. That variety gave her experience with many situations across the lifespan. Those settings shaped a flexible style that mixes different approaches to match each person's needs.
In session Holly draws on client-centered methods to create an accepting environment. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot patterns that keep problems going. She also brings techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when those fit the goals at hand.
People who connect with her tend to want clear steps and practical tools. Parents often come looking for support with behavior, communication, or the strain of caregiving. Others look for help with grief, trauma, or rebuilding life after a major change.
Holly works collaboratively to identify small, manageable changes that add up over time.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online work
Holly commonly blends client-centered care and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard and understood. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult feelings.CBT is about noticing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing small changes. It often includes simple exercises and homework to test new ways of coping, which can be done between video or phone sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Holly will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods fit best and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn't possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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