About Holly
Holly Caruso is a licensed counselor with twenty years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She is credentialed as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and practices in Florida. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at making therapy feel useful from the first session.
She focuses on clear, doable steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing calming skills, and setting small goals that fit real life. Holly pays close attention to identity, relationships, and issues that affect self-worth and belonging. Her background spans trauma recovery, addiction concerns, grief work, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, body image concerns, and communication or commitment difficulties. The work blends short-term problem solving with deeper emotional processing when needed. Holly uses a mix of client-centered listening and structured methods to help people make changes.
Expect a collaborative pace where the person’s values guide therapy choices. She draws from mindfulness and cognitive strategies to teach skills that can be used between sessions. People who choose Holly often want a practical partner who respects their experience.
She helps clients build resilience and clearer choices for work, relationships, and personal growth.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Holly often uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the client feels understood and in charge of goals. It helps when someone needs space to name feelings and decide what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify patterns of thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also integrates mindfulness techniques to help manage intense emotions and stay grounded in day-to-day life. Mindfulness practices in short exercises can reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments. Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative; Holly will talk with each person about their needs, try methods that fit their goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins or shorter workdays, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief check-ins between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work, caregiving, or travel demands and help people maintain momentum between appointments.
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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