About Holly
Holly Duffy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience helping people make clear, practical changes in their lives. She starts by listening to what matters most, then shapes counseling around those goals. Her tone is warm and creative, while staying direct when a more focused approach is needed.
Holly works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and trauma or abuse histories. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy issues, grief, career strain, parenting stress, addictions, and struggles with sleep or eating.
How Holly works
Additional focuses include attachment concerns, caregiving strain, adoption and foster care topics, and neurodiversity issues such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Her practice blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, emotionally focused ideas, and attachment-based perspectives. Holly often uses creative or expressive methods when they suit a person, and she also relies on straightforward talk therapy and practical exercises to shift thoughts and habits.
The emphasis is on hands-on steps that lead to noticeable change. Sessions aim to help people build self-esteem, improve communication, manage intense emotions, and set realistic life goals. She pays attention to patterns that keep people stuck and offers concrete tools to try between appointments.
Holly tailors pace and method to each person’s needs and preferences. Holly offers counseling across California and accepts international clients. All sessions are conducted in English and can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability. Her license is CA LMFT, which is listed as LMFT after her name.
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Holly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and small experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and habits that get in the way of daily life.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how relationships and early patterns shape feelings and connections. These approaches help people improve communication, manage intimacy-related worries, and address attachment or abandonment concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Holly will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try methods that fit. Sessions may shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit consistent work on goals into a real schedule without long commutes.
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