About Gladys
Gladys Hollis welcomes people who want change and practical support. She writes plainly and listens closely. She helps clients who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin.
Gladys aims to find and address the root issues rather than only easing symptoms. Gladys brings six years of counseling experience and a background as a former educator and current middle school counselor in Texas. That work shaped how she notices patterns, developmental influences, and the role of past events in present struggles.
Background and approach
She uses that understanding to help people see how history affects current feelings and choices. Her approach draws from several evidence-based methods. Gladys blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance and attachment-focused work and client-centered listening.
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, focused on skills, understanding, and small changes that add up. People typically come for anxiety, depression, stress, self-esteem, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, or life transitions. She also supports those dealing with trauma, ADHD-related challenges, anger, career issues, and caregiver fatigue.
Gladys pays attention to family patterns, attachment issues, and experiences like abandonment or adoption when they matter to the client. She aims to make therapy collaborative. Clients can expect clear goals, gentle reflection on past experiences, and concrete steps to try between sessions.
Her tone is warm and straightforward, helping people build awareness, resilience, and real progress.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It encourages choosing actions that match personal values even when emotions are uncomfortable, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how a person connects now. In sessions she helps clients recognize patterns in their relationships and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected, useful for intimacy and family concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to the client’s goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. This collaborative process helps match techniques to the person’s needs and preferences rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face-to-face for deeper conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, or shorter sessions that fit between other obligations. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, school, or caregiving.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English