About Holly
Holly Knapp is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 17 years of clinical experience. She has worked across many settings and brings a calm, grounded presence to sessions. Holly focuses on helping people regain balance when life feels overwhelming.
She keeps conversations direct and compassionate. Holly emphasizes connection and pays attention to how emotional, physical, social, nutritional, medical, and spiritual factors interact. Sessions aim to identify concrete steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Holly draws on several practical approaches including cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based strategies. She also uses attachment-focused work to look at how relationships shape patterns of thinking and feeling. These methods help with anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with big life changes.
Her background includes outpatient, crisis, inpatient, residential, correctional, college, and community mental health settings. That range gives perspective on many different life situations and challenges. Holly brings that experience into planning realistic, everyday goals.
People who work with her can expect a collaborative style. She listens, asks clear questions, and helps clients set goals that fit their values and schedules. Holly’s aim is to help people feel more grounded and able to move toward a life that feels meaningful to them.
Evidence-informed approaches available online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small actions that align with what matters most. It supports people who feel stuck by teaching ways to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. It is practical and skill-based, with exercises to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns and can be useful for people who want to understand their connection styles and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Holly will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions combine discussion, skill practice, and planning so clients leave with clear next steps.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit consistent therapy into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska
- Languages
- English