About Holly
Holly Hawkins is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, substance use concerns, grief, depression, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with relationship problems, family conflict, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, anger, low self-esteem, career strain, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Holly brings 12 years of experience working in New York.
She favors a person-centered style that focuses on each person's strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be practical and goal-oriented, with gentle guidance and clear tools you can use between meetings. She uses several well-known approaches, including cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts, dialectical behavior strategies for managing strong emotions, and mindfulness practices to build calm and focus.
Motivational interviewing helps when change feels hard, and a client-centered stance keeps the work grounded in what matters to each person. In sessions Holly aims to be genuine, patient, and respectful. Conversations are meant to uncover practical steps and small changes that add up over time.
She encourages clients to notice what already works for them and to build on those strengths. Holly works with adults who live in New York and offers a mix of remote session types. She helps people set clear goals and stays practical about time and progress.
If someone wants steady support for coping or recovery, she helps map a plan and adjusts it as needs evolve.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy places the person's goals and experience at the center of the work. A therapist listens, reflects, and helps the person identify what matters most and which steps to try next. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical strategies to change patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress without making things worse.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Holly will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs and preferences. That can mean mixing approaches, trying a short skills-focused plan, or slowing the pace to match comfort and goals.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited or when being on camera isn't desired. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or steady contact between longer sessions. These options support flexibility, reduce travel time, and help people maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and daily responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English