About Holly
Holly Forde welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, low mood, anxiety, or relationship difficulties. She is clear and direct in sessions and aims to make it easier to talk about painful feelings. Holly invites clients to explore what matters to them and find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Holly holds the NCPS credential, which is recorded as NCPS. She completed a BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling and has four years of professional experience.
How Holly works
Her background includes work with the charity Mind, independent practice, and a part-time role within the NHS as a renal counsellor supporting people with chronic kidney disease. In sessions she draws on approaches that look at how early attachments and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour. She also uses client-centred and psychodynamic ideas to help people understand themselves and feel heard.
Mindfulness and existential perspectives are used to build awareness and explore meaning when life feels uncertain. Holly helps with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with abandonment and attachment issues, codependency, communication and commitment concerns, and problems linked to chronic illness or bereavement.
Therapy is collaborative and practical. Holly works to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can try new ways of coping. She focuses on finding techniques and perspectives that fit each person’s life and goals.
If someone is ready to begin, Holly encourages taking a small first step to find out if they feel comfortable working together.
Holly lists 6 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
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
Approaches that suit online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current feelings and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and addresses issues like abandonment and attachment worries.Client-Centred Therapy places the client's experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement, reflects back what is said, and helps the person find their own solutions for stress, anxiety and low self-esteem.
Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns shape present behaviour. It can be useful for understanding recurring relationship difficulties and long-standing emotional patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Holly will collaborate with each person to identify which ideas and techniques feel most helpful. Together they will review progress and adapt the approach as needs and goals change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexibility and easier access. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that is helpful. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection, or people who prefer not to be on camera.
Many people find these formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, appointments and caring responsibilities, while still allowing regular, supportive contact with registered or accredited professionals and counsellors.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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