About Holly
Holly Powell uses a client-centered approach as the starting point for therapy. She combines listening with practical strategies to help people manage anxiety, trauma, anger, and stress. Holly is an MD and a licensed certified social worker-clinical, LCSW-C, with 15 years of experience in mental health care.
She practices from Maryland and offers sessions in English. Holly often begins by getting to know a person's goals and concerns. She uses that information to shape sessions and choose methods that fit each situation.
How Holly works
That can mean focusing on thinking and behavior patterns, adding mindfulness skills, or using targeted trauma work when needed. Her style is calm and relaxed. Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on what will help most right now.
Practical tools and simple exercises are common parts of the work, along with time to process feelings. Holly has worked with people facing a wide range of issues, including depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addictions, grief, parenting stress, relationship strain, and self-esteem struggles. She also has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, and post-traumatic stress.
When beginning therapy, she tailors the approach to match a person's needs. That might mean motivational interviewing to build motivation, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts, or EMDR-style trauma processing when appropriate. The goal is steady progress through clear steps and regular check-ins.
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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intellectual disability
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How Holly’s approaches work online
Holly uses client-centered therapy to make sessions feel collaborative and respectful. This approach focuses on understanding what matters most to the person and building sessions around their goals. It helps people who need a calm space to talk and decide what to work on.She frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT offers practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. For trauma-related concerns she may draw on EMDR-informed techniques to process distressing memories and reduce their hold on day-to-day life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Holly will discuss options, try methods that fit a person's goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps find what feels most helpful and realistic.
Online sessions can be delivered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls let people read facial cues and do guided exercises; phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer ongoing support between sessions or for those who prefer writing. These options provide flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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