Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
How Holly works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Holly
Holly Duffy is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of practice. She helps people set clear goals and make everyday changes while they cope with strong emotions and stress. Holly brings a direct but warm style that balances honesty with creativity.
Her work centers on tailoring sessions to the person in front of her. She uses talk therapy alongside practical tools to shift thoughts, habits, and routines.
Background and approach
When helpful, she blends creative or expressive methods to support self-esteem and healthier relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a regular part of her approach. She uses it to help people take concrete steps in thinking and behavior that reduce anxiety, manage anger, or improve sleep and daily functioning.
Other influences include attachment-focused and emotionally oriented work to repair trust and connection. Holly also draws from existential and Jungian perspectives to help people find meaning, manage life transitions, and understand deeper patterns. She works with a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma, addictions, ADHD, depression, and career stress.
Anger and coping with life changes are among the issues she attends to directly. Sessions are adapted to each person's needs and goals. Holly aims to be a steady guide who helps people notice what to change, try new behaviors, and build lasting habits for a more satisfying life.
What Holly works with
Everything Holly lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Holly's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Holly lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape expectations and emotional responses. Online sessions can use reflective conversation and guided exercises to strengthen trust and improve emotional connection in current relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes practical steps to change thinking and behavior. In virtual sessions clients often receive concrete tools, behavior experiments, and homework to try between meetings to reduce anxiety, manage anger, or improve sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean starting with CBT skills, adding emotionally-focused activities, or weaving in reflective existential questions as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or on a shorter break. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work across distance or changing schedules.
Questions people ask about Holly
What kinds of concerns does Holly support?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, career concerns, and related issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and connected while remaining direct when needed. She mixes practical, action-oriented techniques with creative or expressive work based on each person's needs.
What is her background and experience?
Holly has 15 years of clinical experience helping people set goals and change habits across a broad range of emotional and relational concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California.
In which languages can sessions be held and are international clients supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Holly?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.