About Holly
Holly Caruso offers straightforward, compassionate care for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or major life changes. She works with clients who are struggling with mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, addiction and substance issues, and challenges related to identity and intimacy. Holly is introduced by name up front to make the connection clear and approachable.
Holly uses practical methods that help people make small, manageable changes. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and addressing past trauma in ways a person can use day to day.
How Holly works
She brings 20 years of experience as a licensed clinician, holding an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential. Her work often includes techniques from client-centered therapy to keep the person’s goals central. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more useful behaviors.
Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies are brought in to support immediate relief and clear next steps. Holly also addresses issues tied to family of origin, adoption and foster care history, attachment concerns, and caregiver stress. She helps people navigate relationship tension, communication problems, and intimacy-related worries.
Additional focus areas include body image, eating concerns, and compassion fatigue for those in helping roles. People meet with Holly via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and she offers care in English in the state of Florida.
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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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients decide the next steps that feel right for them. This approach supports work on identity, self-esteem, and relationship communication. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. It is practical and often includes homework like tracking patterns or testing small behavior changes, which can be reviewed during video or phone sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and support emotion regulation in day-to-day life. Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. Holly will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can provide shorter check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family duties, or travel without losing continuity of care.Start online instead of waiting
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