About Holly
Holly Gerety is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Holly offers a calm, welcoming space where people can feel heard and start to untangle difficult emotions.
Holly uses straightforward, practical methods to help people build skills. She draws on client-centered conversations to follow what matters most to each person.
How Holly works
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify patterns that keep problems going and to practice different ways of thinking and behaving. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help with grounding, sleep problems, and overwhelming emotions. Narrative techniques help people rewrite painful stories about themselves and their relationships.
Motivational interviewing supports clients who want coaching around career moves, behavior change, or managing compassion fatigue. Holly helps people develop coping plans for change, grief, parenting strain, workplace stress, ADHD-related challenges, and issues around intimacy or identity. She pays attention to family of origin work, blended family dynamics, body image, and isolation so clients can tackle practical steps forward.
Sessions aim to strengthen self-awareness, build resilience, and produce concrete strategies for day-to-day life. Holly encourages small, doable changes and tracks progress together. The first contact starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling that fits the client’s life.
Holly lists 9 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
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Holly often uses client-centered work that keeps the session focused on what matters most to the person. This approach prioritizes listening and following the client’s pace so goals emerge from their own values and needs.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and practice new behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, sleep issues, and workplace stress by offering concrete tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Holly discusses options and tailors techniques to each person’s goals and preferences. Decisions about pacing and methods are collaborative and reviewed over time to fit changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation blocks. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief coaching, check-ins, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress across different situations.
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