About Holly
Holly Caruso is a licensed counselor with twenty years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She creates a calm and respectful space where clients can talk about identity, relationships, grief, or behaviors that feel out of control. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and understandable for people who feel overwhelmed.
Holly uses clear, hands-on methods to break down problems into manageable steps. She often blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people notice what’s happening in the body and mind without getting swept away. Her background includes work across diverse life issues such as addiction, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing attachment concerns, adoption and foster care questions, aging-related stress, and body image struggles.
That range means she is familiar with how different problems can overlap and affect daily life. Holly holds LCPC and LMHC credentials. She is licensed in Illinois as an LCPC and in Florida as an LMHC and maintains a practice based in Florida.
Sessions are offered in English and designed to match each person’s pace and goals. Clients who reach out will find a collaborator who listens first and offers concrete skills next. She guides people toward clearer choices, better coping tools, and small steps that build confidence over time.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Holly frequently uses client-centered therapy to build a trusting working relationship where the person feels heard and understood. That approach focuses on active listening and reflecting what matters most to the client so goals can be clear and personally meaningful.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and tests small behavior changes to see what helps, which works well in online sessions because homework and skill practice are straightforward to track.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Holly will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. She adjusts the plan over time based on what is helpful and what is not, so the process stays collaborative rather than fixed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more interactive skill work and face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed, and chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care across changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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