About Holly
Holly Cruttenden is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She holds BACP accreditation, and she offers therapy to people in the UK and internationally. Holly focuses on creating an accepting space where people can talk about what matters to them.
Holly helps people facing stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, family difficulties and life changes. She also works with LGBT clients and those managing issues related to ageing, neurodiversity and caregiver stress.
How Holly works
Her practice covers a broad range of concerns including communication problems, codependency, dissociation and separation. Her approach draws on client-centred work, which means sessions follow the person's pace and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to look at thought patterns and mindfulness to build day-to-day coping skills.
Psychodynamic ideas inform longer-term patterns she and a client might gently explore together. Sessions are aimed at practical change as well as understanding. Holly listens, reflects and helps clients try new ways of coping between sessions.
She supports people to spot unhelpful patterns and to develop small, workable steps forward. People choose Holly when they want a calm, non-judgemental space to sort through worries. She aims to make therapy straightforward and applicable to daily life.
The focus is on clear goals and steady progress so people feel more able to handle life’s challenges.
Holly lists 4 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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Holly’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on following the person's agenda and pace. In practice this means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what they hear and helps the person set their own goals. This approach suits people who want a space to be heard and to find their own answers.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. The work often involves noticing patterns, trying small experiments and practising new skills between sessions. CBT can be useful for anxiety, stress and low self-esteem.
Mindfulness helps people develop simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and stay grounded. Exercises used in sessions can be short and applied during daily routine to support coping with difficult moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Holly will work collaboratively to decide what fits a person's needs, goals and preferences and may combine elements from different approaches over time.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face contact when that is helpful, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options help people access support from different places and at different times while keeping therapy practical and usable.
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