About Gloria
Gloria Holland is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and address addictions and trauma so people can feel steadier day to day. She begins by listening to what matters most to each person.
Sessions aim to make thinking clearer and coping easier with straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness. Gloria helps people talk through grief and rebuild self-esteem after difficult losses or abuse.
Background and approach
Her work draws on hands-on methods that target unhelpful thoughts and teach calming skills. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events keep causing distress, helping people make sense of those memories and move forward. Internal Family Systems ideas are woven in to help clients understand different parts of themselves and reduce inner conflict.
Gloria’s style is steady and practical. She emphasizes small steps and real changes rather than long explanations. People leave sessions with specific strategies they can try between meetings.
Based in Mississippi, Gloria offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She guides people through the process of choosing what format and approach will fit their life and goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Gloria commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and stress. CBT sessions focus on practical exercises and experiments that can reduce worry and improve everyday functioning.She also integrates mindfulness therapy to teach attention and breathing skills that lower arousal and support emotion regulation. Those practices are useful for managing panic, stress, and the physical symptoms that come with anxiety.
Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past events continue to cause strong reactions. That work focuses on helping a person process and make sense of traumatic memories while building stronger coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and behavioral exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing prompts and short updates between sessions. These formats make care more flexible and easier to fit around work and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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