About Holly
Holly Bankston focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship troubles, and challenges related to ADHD. She writes in plain terms and offers a steady, practical presence for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. Holly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 17 years of clinical experience in Texas.
Her sessions center on clear goals and usable skills. She blends approaches that teach people how to cope in the moment and also to shift long-term patterns.
How Holly works
Conversations aim to make problems easier to understand and to identify steps a person can try between sessions. Holly draws on several therapy styles to fit each person’s needs. She uses techniques that focus on thoughts and behaviors, emotion-focused work for close relationships, and acceptance-based strategies for painful feelings.
These methods are adapted to practical concerns like sleep, mood, focus, and communication. She also addresses a wide range of life stresses beyond the headline concerns. That includes issues related to adoption and foster care, caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, body image, attachment and commitment struggles, and blended family stress.
The aim is to meet the specific problem in front of the person and work toward tangible improvements. Sessions can include skill-building, emotional processing, and planning for everyday challenges. Holly offers a collaborative tone and focuses on small changes that add up.
People who want straightforward, skills-focused support tend to find this approach helpful.
Holly lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Holly works with
The areas below are the ones Holly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It encourages identifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it teaches concrete skills to test and adjust thinking. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in close relationships to improve connection and communication.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the person about current struggles, goals, and what methods feel most comfortable. Together they try an approach, review what helps, and adapt the plan based on real progress and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework discussion, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.
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A practical next step
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