About Holly
Holly Powell is a clinician who blends client-centered care with practical therapy tools. She holds an MD and is a licensed certified social worker-clinical, LCSW-C, in Maryland. Her style is calm and approachable, and she focuses on helping people facing anxiety, trauma, stress, and related concerns.
She brings 15 years of field experience to her work. Early in her career she used a client-centered, solution-focused way of working. Over time she added cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and elements from other approaches to match each person’s goals.
Background and approach
In sessions she keeps the tone relaxed and steady. Conversations move at a pace people can follow, with practical steps to try between meetings. She listens for attachment issues and patterns that shape how someone relates to others, then uses that understanding to guide the work.
Holly helps with a wide range of difficulties, including depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, phobias, panic, grief, and self-harm. She also supports people dealing with family and parenting stress, adoption and foster care matters, and trauma from domestic violence. Her toolbox includes attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral strategies, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
These methods are mixed to fit each person’s needs. People can expect clear steps, straightforward talk, and steady support as they work toward change.
How therapy approaches work online
Holly uses client-centered therapy to start most work. That means sessions focus on what matters to the person, with the therapist listening and reflecting so goals become clear. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk about anxiety, attachment patterns, or family stress.She also relies on cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers practical exercises and small experiments people can try between sessions to reduce panic, phobias, or low mood. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is another tool she may use for trauma-related symptoms by helping the brain process distressing memories in a focused way.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options and adapt techniques based on the person’s needs, goals, and comfort. Sessions are collaborative, with goals set together and adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat or messaging can be a good fit for brief updates, coping reminders, or when someone prefers written exchanges. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity across weeks.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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