About Holly
Holly Duffy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience helping people make concrete changes in their lives. She focuses on practical goals and clear steps so clients can move forward. Her style is warm and connected, with honesty when situations call for it.
Holly adapts each session to the person in front of her. She blends talk-based work with creative exercises when those methods help build self-esteem or improve relationships.
Background and approach
She also uses body-focused, somatic perspectives to help people notice how emotions show up in their bodies. Her training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on changing thinking and habits through grounded action. She pairs CBT with other approaches when a client would benefit from emotional insight or exploration of deeper meaning.
Sessions often include practical tools to manage stress, anxiety, low mood, or difficult life transitions. Holly also supports people dealing with trauma, relationship struggles, addiction, grief, attention differences, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and identity questions. She pays attention to attachment patterns and how early experiences affect current relationships.
Holly works with a broad range of challenges and adjusts pace and technique to each person’s needs. Her goal is to help people become more satisfied and motivated in daily life by creating realistic steps, noticing changes, and building new habits. To start, clients choose the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work focuses on how feelings appear in the body and uses simple awareness and movement to help people notice and shift uncomfortable sensations. This can be helpful for trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, and stress when clients learn to read bodily signals and respond differently.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes practical steps and small experiments to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Online sessions can include worksheets, behavior plans, and check-ins to track progress between meetings.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In virtual sessions the therapist and client explore those patterns together, practicing new ways of connecting and responding that can improve relationships and emotional regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Holly will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and pace. That shared decision-making helps make therapy useful and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to offer flexibility. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions, try short check-ins between meetings, and keep momentum while balancing family, work, or mobility limits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English