About Holly
Holly Spire is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 30 years of practice. She uses a somatic-informed, person-focused approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Holly speaks plainly and keeps sessions grounded in practical steps people can use at home.
Holly believes clients know their own stories and brings that respect into each session. She blends body-focused listening with client-centered conversation and skills-based tools to help people feel steadier day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions often include breath awareness, grounding strategies, and simple exercises to shift how emotions show up in the body. Her background includes long experience in trauma work and helping people cope after losses or major life changes. She also focuses on concerns such as body image, eating and food-related issues, cancer-related stress, caregiver strain, and aftermaths of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Holly aims to help people find clearer choices and more self-compassion as they recover. Holly holds the credential LCSW-R, New York license number 074510. She has also completed work as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and continues to deepen her understanding of trauma-related issues.
Her style is steady, respectful, and practical. People who work with Holly can expect a collaborative pace. She helps set goals together and adapts techniques to each person’s needs.
Starting therapy is framed as a step toward more ease rather than a sign of failure.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Holly integrates somatic therapy, client-centered work, and DBT-informed skills into online sessions. Somatic therapy invites attention to the body's sensations and gentle physical awareness to help with stress, anxiety, and trauma symptoms. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, building trust, and following the person’s lead to set helpful goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings clear, teachable skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Holly collaborates with each person to see which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adapts techniques so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy days, review written skill reminders between meetings, and use short check-ins when needed. The mix of live conversation and messaging can make steady progress more achievable for many people who need support while juggling work, caregiving, or medical demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English