About Holly
Holly Karchaske helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem challenges, and career concerns. She presents a calm, respectful presence and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Holly speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling work and family life.
Holly is a Licensed Professional Counselor, with licenses in Colorado and Texas and 14 years of experience. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method.
Background and approach
That means sessions tend to focus on real-life coping skills, clearer thinking, and small changes that add up over time. In sessions she listens closely and asks questions to clarify what matters most to the client. She works with clients on problem solving, emotional understanding, and improving everyday routines.
Practical suggestions and short exercises are often part of the work between meetings. Holly also supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, body image struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and codependency. She helps with communication problems, divorce and separation, addiction concerns, forgiveness, guilt, and isolation.
Her approach is collaborative: clients and Holly set goals together and adjust the plan as progress happens. People who want straightforward guidance and steady support often find this style helpful.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Holly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical tools. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for stress and anxiety through step-by-step practice and short exercises. This helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses in daily life.Another approach centers on processing trauma and difficult memories at a pace the client can manage. Work typically involves building safety and grounding skills first, then gradually addressing painful material while monitoring reactions and support needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Holly collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort, and lifestyle. She adjusts plans as progress is made and invites feedback about what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction without travel. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, and when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to schedule consistent sessions and to practice skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English