About Holly
Holly Bankston offers a calm, straightforward approach for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, relationship strain, or challenges related to ADHD. She presents as someone practical and down-to-earth who helps clients break unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping. Holly uses everyday language and clear steps in sessions so people know what to expect.
She works from a licensed professional counselor perspective and brings 17 years of experience to her practice in Texas.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people facing a wide range of concerns, including attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and communication problems. She also has experience with identity and personality concerns such as avoidant and antisocial patterns, and with neurodiversity including autism and Asperger syndrome.
Holly draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what the person needs. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive work and emotion-focused skills. She also uses techniques from client-centered and dialectical approaches when they fit the situation.
In sessions she helps people notice patterns, practice new ways of responding, and set small, doable goals. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the client's priorities guide the work. The emphasis is on practical tools and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
All services are provided in English and delivered remotely through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button and completes a short matching questionnaire to schedule an initial appointment.
Approach-driven care available online
Holly commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. ACT focuses on accepting difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful goals, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT is practical and skill-based, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, and managing stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Holly will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods to match each person's needs. The process is collaborative, with the client helping to shape which tools and focuses feel most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow real-time interaction similar to an in-person visit, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, chat is useful for focused check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing touchpoints between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English