About Holly
Holly Skillern is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and challenges with self-esteem. She works with people facing trauma, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at practical steps the client can use between sessions.
Holly draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor a plan to each person. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and understanding patterns that keep problems stuck.
Background and approach
She pays attention to worries about sleep, eating, and focus, and offers strategies for day-to-day improvement. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that values their experience and goals. Holly aims to create space for honest conversation and to help people set realistic, measurable goals.
She describes therapy as a process of learning new skills and practicing them in life. With ten years of experience as an LPC in Texas, Holly combines practical tools with respectful listening. She supports people dealing with burnout and compassion fatigue as well as clinical concerns like bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress.
Her work also addresses communication problems, guilt and shame, and isolation. Holly welcomes English-speaking clients, including those outside the United States. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet different needs and schedules.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Holly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on building skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach emphasizes teaching practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress so people can try techniques between sessions and track progress. Another approach centers on processing trauma and its effects through paced, supportive conversation and grounding strategies to reduce overwhelming reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Holly will discuss options, listen to goals, and adapt methods to what feels most helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different techniques and settle on what fits the individual’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, and live chat or messaging supports short updates and ongoing practice between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between visits.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English