About Holly
Holly Bankston, LPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, or relationship strain. She also supports those managing depression, ADHD, and the practical fallout of life transitions. Her tone is straightforward and calm, aimed at people who want clear steps and steady support.
Holly focuses on everyday skills that make life easier. Sessions combine talk with simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce worry. She keeps things practical so clients can use what they learn between meetings.
Background and approach
With 17 years of experience, Holly draws on several well-known therapy approaches. She blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and emotionally-focused work to suit each person. That mix helps with anxiety, relationships, and recurring thoughts or behaviors.
Holly has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, body image, and communication problems. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, commitment worries, codependency, and aging-related issues. Sessions are offered in English and are based in Texas.
Holly uses a practical, collaborative style that aims to make therapy feel useful from the start. She avoids jargon and focuses on what clients can do to feel better and move forward.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose values-based actions. It is useful when worry or avoidance gets in the way of what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often helpful for anxiety, low mood, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match tools to the client’s needs and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera isn’t ideal, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing contact between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling evening or weekend meetings and for using different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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