About Hope
Hope Holman works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, or life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Virginia with ten years of experience. Hope offers a calm, encouraging presence for people taking a first step toward change.
She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Sessions often include examining unhelpful thoughts, trying new behaviors, and practicing mindfulness to reduce distress.
How Hope works
Hope combines these tools with a warm, nonjudgmental approach so people feel heard while they learn new ways of coping. Her background includes a decade in mental health settings and work across a range of concerns. That experience informs how she tailors sessions to each person’s needs and goals.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to guide the work. Hope pays attention to relationship patterns, family of origin issues, and challenges like abandonment, body image, or caregiver stress. She also supports people facing trauma, domestic violence histories, mood disorders, ADHD, and parenting stresses.
Sessions aim to help people gain skills for better mood, clearer communication, and steadier relationships. Hope frames therapy as a collaborative process. She helps clients set manageable goals, practices skills in session, and adapts strategies over time.
The focus is on useful change that fits each person’s life and values.
Hope lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Hope works with
The areas below are the ones Hope 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Sessions
Hope frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, committed steps even when emotions are difficult. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where values-driven change matters. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test out new behaviors that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. CBT is often practical for depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful in session. That collaborative process helps tailor tools to real-life situations and keeps the focus on achievable progress.
Online therapy with Hope is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, homework discussion, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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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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