Holly Henderson, LMHC, LPCC

Holly Henderson is a licensed mental health counselor with 19 years of experience helping people navigate relationship and life challenges. She works from a client-centered, strengths-based perspective and encourages clients to bring their whole selves to sessions. Her approach is respectful and hopeful, and she uses practical tools to address common struggles like anxiety and depression.

Holly trained in clinical psychology, earning a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Seattle after completing a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Florida. That educational background supports work across a range of concerns from trauma and mood disorders to identity questions and parenting strains.

She draws on client-centered therapy to center each person’s needs and offers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and mindfulness practices also appear in her work, especially when relationship patterns or strong emotions are at the core of difficulty.

Holly’s clinical history includes inpatient, mobile crisis, triage, community-based, home-based, residential, and telehealth settings. That variety informs how she structures sessions, communicates clearly, and helps people manage stress, grief, and complex family dynamics.

Common focus areas include relationship and intimacy-related issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, and mood disorders such as bipolar and depressive conditions. She also works with issues like codependency, communication problems, panic attacks, and feelings of emptiness.

Her style is collaborative and often practical: she teaches communication skills, mindfulness techniques, and CBT-based strategies while offering encouragement and, when appropriate, a sense of humor to ease hard conversations.

How Holly’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy starts by focusing on what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, acceptance, and helping clients name their own goals so sessions follow their priorities.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try new actions, which can help with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotional experience and patterns in relationships. It helps people notice how emotions drive interaction and practice new ways of connecting when intimacy or communication is strained.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then outline options. This is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.

Confirm current session formats before booking, as options are subject to the therapist's scheduling and practice. Online work can make sessions easier to fit into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and let people use audio-only meetings if video is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt the therapeutic methods above to remote meetings so clients can practice skills and track progress between sessions.