About Holly
Holly Partin helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and changes in their lives. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she draws on 25 years of experience to offer steady, practical support. Her approach focuses on building skills that people can use day to day.
Holly listens carefully and helps clients notice what matters most to them. She uses straightforward methods to reduce overwhelming feelings and to build better coping habits.
Background and approach
Conversations are focused and goal-oriented, with room to reflect and process difficult events. Common issues she addresses include mood changes, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy-related problems, parenting stress, career transitions, and burnout. She also works with people facing identity and body-image concerns, attachment struggles, and grief from loss or separation.
Holly pays attention to how life events and relationships shape reactions and choices. Her style blends acceptance-based and cognitive approaches alongside emotion-focused and attachment-informed work. That mix makes it possible to practice new behaviors and also understand the feelings behind them.
Sessions aim to leave people with concrete tools they can use outside of therapy. Holly practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions in English. She offers several online formats to fit different needs.
If someone wants help managing mood, coping with life changes, or strengthening relationships with themselves and others, she aims to provide a calm, practical place to begin.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Holly combines approaches that help people change unhelpful patterns and connect with what matters. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then commit to actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical strategies for managing symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems by changing patterns of thinking and behavior. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop healthier ways of relating and feeling supported.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, tracking progress, or working through exercises between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English