About Holly
Holly Abbott is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She brings 16 years of experience supporting people through hard transitions and everyday stress. Holly aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and practical.
She meets people where they are and focuses on what matters to them. Sessions are conversational and direct, with an emphasis on building trust and clear goals. Holly uses listening, reflection, and gentle challenge to help clients see options and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Holly draws on approaches like cognitive-behavioral strategies and client-centered techniques to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She also uses dialetical behavior ideas to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. The methods are chosen to fit each person rather than following a single script.
Her experience includes work in schools, independent practice, and community agencies. That background informs a practical style that balances structure with warmth. Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief and parenting challenges.
Holly also supports people dealing with ADHD, career stress, compassion fatigue, and life stage shifts. She helps with adoption and foster care questions, attachment and communication problems, chronic illness coping, and navigating separation or divorce. The work emphasizes small, doable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. The therapist focuses on understanding your experience and building a supportive relationship, which helps when you need space to talk about sensitive topics like grief, identity, or attachment.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT often includes setting short-term goals, practicing new skills, and using simple worksheets or exercises between sessions to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Dialectical behavior ideas teach concrete skills for managing intense emotions and handling relationship strain. These skills can be practiced over video or messaging and are useful for improving emotional regulation and communication.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments happen over time based on what works.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face to face; phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing coaching between longer visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while focusing on practical change.
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What this counselor 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