About Holly
Holly Knapp is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with 17 years of clinical experience. She practices in Wisconsin and brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence to sessions. Her work emphasizes connection and practical steps forward.
She has worked in many settings over her career, including outpatient, crisis, inpatient, residential, correctional, college, and community mental health. That range has shaped a flexible approach that adapts to each person's situation.
How Holly works
Holly pays attention to how emotional, physical, social, nutritional, medical, and spiritual factors interact in everyday life. In sessions she works together with people to process difficult experiences and to build toward lasting change. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on simple, usable strategies to feel steadier.
She aims to help people find more balance, meaning, and purpose through steady, realistic steps. Holly often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, coping with life changes, trauma and grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and concerns like addiction and burnout. She also addresses attention challenges, bipolar symptoms, body image and eating concerns, sleep, and parenting strain.
Her additional interest areas include aging, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and communication problems. Her style blends acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed work, client-centered listening, cognitive tools, and mindfulness practices. Sessions are grounded and kind, with attention to what will help in daily life.
People who want practical help and a respectful, collaborative process often find this approach useful.
Holly lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small actions that match those values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck by encouraging flexible responses instead of trying to avoid difficult feelings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional safety. It can be useful for relationship or intimacy struggles and for people who want to understand their attachment reactions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental listening stance where the therapist follows the persons lead and offers empathy to support growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process helps shape what is used in sessions so the plan matches real-life goals and rhythms.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for short check-ins, and messaging helps people stay connected between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and let people choose the format that works best for them.
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