About Holly
Holly Caruso offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She focuses on practical steps visitors can take right away. Holly is a licensed clinician with two decades of experience as an LCPC and an LMHC and practices in Florida.
She works with clients who are dealing with trauma, addictions, mood concerns like depression and bipolar, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem. Holly also helps people facing caregiving strain, body image worries, attention differences, and workplace or career stress.
Background and approach
Her practice includes support for LGBT concerns and those coping with adoption, attachment, or aging questions. Holly blends client-centered listening with structured techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to set clear goals and small steps forward.
In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, test new behaviors, and track progress over time. Her style is direct but warm, aiming to make therapy feel understandable and useful. Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings, like emotion regulation, communication strategies, and coping plans for difficult moments.
Holly aims to help people regain steadiness and move toward their goals. With about 20 years of clinical experience, Holly draws on many areas of work to tailor a plan to each person. People who prefer an active, collaborative approach to problem solving often find this helpful.
Approaches that translate to online care
Holly often uses client-centered therapy, which means the session focuses on the person’s own goals and experiences. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people clarify what matters most to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is practical and skill-based, useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with stress by changing unhelpful patterns.
Mindfulness practices are another part of her work, teaching simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and build calm. These tools support emotion regulation and can be used between sessions to manage difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Holly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust methods as progress is tracked. The plan can shift if a different technique seems more helpful over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or busy schedules. Video calls let therapists observe tone and body language, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can make brief check-ins or journaling-style reflections easier. Using these formats, sessions can fit around appointments, travel, or work breaks while keeping focus on practical steps and skill building.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English