About Hollis
Hollis Greenspan is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) practicing in Massachusetts. She centers sessions on helping people notice and change persistent patterns that get in the way of daily life. Hollis emphasizes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach that aims to leave clients feeling more able to make chosen changes.
Hollis draws on client-centered care to prioritize each person’s experience. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past patterns shape present feelings and behavior.
How Hollis works
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help clients notice thoughts and bodily signals without getting swept up by them. Her background includes a master of social work from the University of Connecticut and an advanced counseling certificate from The Synthesis Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Tufts University.
Hollis has 11 years of professional experience working with mood disorders, grief, and relationship struggles among other issues. Typical concerns she addresses include depression, anxiety, relationship and intimacy difficulties, self-esteem, stress, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include body image, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, infidelity, and identity questions.
Her practice also includes work around grief, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, and personality challenges. Hollis brings a warm, flexible presence and uses practical tools like mindfulness and focused reflection. She supports people who want to understand why they repeat certain patterns and who want hands-on ways to try something different.
The emphasis is on collaborative problem solving and building skills that fit daily life.
Hollis lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Hollis works with
The areas below are the ones Hollis selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. In practice this means sessions that follow what matters most to the client and prioritize clear, empathic feedback to help people feel heard and make decisions about change.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to notice thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. Those practices can reduce reactivity and help with anxiety, stress, relationship tension, and recurring patterns of behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hollis will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. Together they will check in on what helps and adjust the plan over time rather than sticking to a single method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and practicing mindfulness together, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text work well for brief check-ins or ongoing tracking between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets disrupted.
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