About Holly
Holly Caruso offers therapy for people facing a wide range of emotional and life challenges, including stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and career-related issues.
Background and approach
She is experienced working with identity-related matters such as LGBT concerns, sexual health, and identity exploration, and also addresses clinical issues like bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Holly emphasizes helping clients build self-esteem, improve communication, and develop practical coping strategies to manage life transitions and interpersonal difficulties.
With 20 years of clinical experience and licenses in both Illinois and Florida, Holly blends evidence-based methods with a client-centered stance that honors each person’s story. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies to tailor interventions to specific goals.
Clients can expect a respectful, empathic partnership aimed at processing difficult emotions, increasing resilience, and promoting meaningful change over time. Sessions are available through multiple online formats, and Holly’s practice is oriented toward collaboration and gradual skill development so clients leave therapy with tools they can apply in daily life.
Therapeutic Approaches for Effective Online Support
Holly uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, a practical approach often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach present-focused awareness and emotion regulation skills that can reduce reactivity and improve coping with difficult feelings. Motivational interviewing is another tool she employs to explore ambivalence and strengthen motivation for change in areas like addictions or lifestyle shifts.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Holly works with each person to assess goals, preferences, and symptom patterns, then adapts methods over time so therapy remains relevant and effective. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to prioritize and how to pace progress.
Online therapy with Holly is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and maintain continuity during transitions. These options provide flexibility in scheduling and in how people prefer to communicate while receiving evidence-informed care from a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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