About Holly
Holly Hawkins is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 12 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns, and ADHD. Holly aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She uses a person-centered style that keeps the client's goals first. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with clear steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She blends talk-based work with tools drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills training to address troubling thoughts and habits. Holly also draws on dialectical behavior therapy strategies and mindfulness techniques to help manage intense emotion and improve day-to-day coping. Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when people are weighing change or facing substance use concerns.
Together these methods offer both short-term problem solving and deeper work on patterns that cause distress. Her background includes care coordination, individual counseling, and group work with adults and adolescents. She has experience with assessments and making referrals when additional supports are helpful.
Clients can expect a respectful, steady presence and practical suggestions they can try between sessions. Holly works with people living in New York. She offers sessions that fit different schedules and communication styles, aiming to make therapy easier to attend and use.
How Holly Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Holly commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy into online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when emotions run high.She also uses client-centered principles, keeping sessions focused on the person's own goals and strengths. Finding the best approach is collaborative; Holly will discuss what feels most useful, try methods in-session, and adjust the plan based on what helps the client meet their goals.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video can support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family routines while keeping a consistent therapeutic process.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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