- Goal focused
- Skill building
- Mindful approaches
About Holly
Holly Ellison is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. She speaks plainly and works with clients to identify practical steps for daily life. Holly focuses on calming anxiety, managing panic attacks, and improving stress responses so people can move forward one step at a time.
She uses approaches that center the person in the room. Sessions often focus on clear goals, simple skills, and short-term strategies that people can try between meetings. Holly draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice unhelpful thinking, and she uses mindfulness practices to build steady breathing and attention skills.
Holly has 11 years of experience providing counseling in community and hospital settings across Florida. Her background includes individual and group work, and she has supported clients with anxiety, impulse control, communication problems, grief, and self-esteem concerns. Her clinical style blends solution-focused planning with motivational interviewing to encourage practical change.
In sessions she helps people develop coping tools for life changes, work stress, parenting strain, and career decisions. She also supports those facing compassion fatigue and challenges linked to attention differences. The aim is to find manageable strategies that fit each person’s day-to-day reality.
If someone wants to begin, Holly asks questions about current struggles and goals, then builds short, doable steps. Meetings emphasize real-world practice and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How her approaches translate to online care
Holly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT typically involves setting clear goals, trying small behavioral experiments, and practicing new ways of thinking that reduce anxiety and panic symptoms.She also relies on mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. These tools help people manage intense moments, reduce reactivity, and build steadier focus during day-to-day tasks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Holly will collaborate with each person to choose which methods to try first, adjust them over time, and pick exercises that fit personal goals and rhythms.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking. The practical benefits of remote therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week, shortening travel time, and using phone or video to keep continuity when schedules change. Remote work can make it easier to practice skills between meetings and to check in during transitions without rearranging the whole day.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
11+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Holly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, self-esteem, grief, parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and related issues such as communication problems, control issues, impulsivity, and panic disorder and panic attacks.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style combines person-centered listening with practical skills. Sessions mix short-term solution-focused plans, motivational interviewing, and cognitive techniques to try between meetings.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
She has 11 years of experience working in community and hospital settings, including individual and group counseling with a range of concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - licensed in Florida and practices in that state.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to start therapy?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.