About Holly
Holly Varona is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She brings six years of counseling experience and a human-centered style to sessions. Holly aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about painful experiences and figure out next steps.
Her work centers on common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She also helps people process trauma and abuse and address self-esteem and body image worries.
Background and approach
Holly often supports those dealing with attachment and abandonment issues and complex identity or sexual expression topics such as kink and consensual non-monogamy. Holly draws on ideas from both Eastern and Western practices to match what an individual needs. She adapts techniques instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.
That means sessions can include practical coping skills, reflective conversation, and paced work on difficult memories. Her background includes work with multicultural and LGBTQIA+ communities and people from varied life paths. She notes experience with religious trauma and recovery from controlling group experiences.
Holly emphasizes respect for each person’s values and identity as she helps them find workable changes. Sessions are available in English. People who choose to work with Holly can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth approach focused on small, manageable steps toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Holly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques drawn from both Eastern and Western ideas. One approach focuses on grounding and present-moment skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress. These techniques teach simple breathing and attention exercises people can use between sessions to feel steadier. Another approach emphasizes paced processing of troubling memories and feelings so trauma and abuse can be addressed without overwhelming someone. This method breaks work into small steps and builds coping skills before deeper work.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Holly will listen to goals, try different strategies, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods to keep and which to change over time.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work. Video calls let people read facial cues and use screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to get short support between sessions or to keep a running record of thoughts. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different day-to-day needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English