About Holly
Holly Knapp is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience supporting people through hard life moments. She practices in Wisconsin and brings calm, straightforward guidance to sessions. Holly focuses on practical steps that help clients manage stress, anxiety, and major life changes.
She draws on a variety of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions often include strategies from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help with worry, mood, and daily routines.
Background and approach
Attachment-focused ideas also appear when relationships and trust are central concerns. Holly has worked in many settings over the years, including outpatient care, crisis services, inpatient units, residential programs, correctional facilities, college counseling, and community mental health. That background shapes a flexible style that fits people facing very different challenges.
She speaks English and practices in Wisconsin. Her typical way of working is collaborative and direct. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and tests practical skills between sessions.
Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space and specific tools for coping with depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, grief, and trauma-related problems. Beyond symptom work, Holly pays attention to whole-person wellness. She considers emotional, physical, social, nutritional, medical, and spiritual factors when they matter to a client's recovery.
This broader view helps clients build routines that support lasting change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward a life they care about. It helps when worry or avoidance keeps someone from doing the things that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to relationship patterns and how early connections shape current trust and intimacy struggles; it can help when relationship difficulties or attachment wounds are part of the concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best. Goals, preferences, and everyday demands guide the plan, and techniques can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video lets people use visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat can serve as a brief check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing connection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, school, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska
- Languages
- English