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Online therapist

Ebony McCray-Holmes

Focused help for family and life changes

Credentials
LMFT
Experience
14 years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Ebony

Ebony McCray-Holmes is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps that people can use right away to ease stress and improve family life. Her style is straightforward and collaborative, with attention to communication and emotional coping skills.

Ebony often works with concerns such as relationship strain, family problems, parenting challenges, and grief. She also supports people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, and the fallout from trauma and abuse.

Background and approach

Her practice pays close attention to issues like abandonment, blended family dynamics, and family of origin patterns. She uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients identify specific goals and build small workable changes. Sessions prioritize problem-solving, clearer communication, and tools to manage anger, stress, and life transitions.

The approach keeps conversations practical and goal-directed so progress can be felt between meetings. Ebony brings a compassionate but direct manner to therapy, helping clients rebuild self-esteem and reduce isolation. She pays special attention to women's issues and young adult concerns while addressing workplace stress and life purpose questions.

Her language is plain and practical so parents and caregivers can quickly decide if the fit feels right. Therapy with her aims to strengthen relationships and improve everyday functioning. People leave sessions with clearer steps, stronger coping skills, and a plan for moving forward.

Solution-Focused Work Online and Practical Support

Solution-Focused Therapy centers on clear goals and quick, practical changes. It helps people name a specific outcome and test small actions that move toward that goal, which is useful for relationship or parenting issues and coping with life transitions.

Ebony emphasizes a collaborative process to find the right approach. She will talk with clients about needs, preferences, and priorities and then choose techniques that fit. Figuring out whether Solution-Focused work or another method will help is part of the early sessions, and the plan can change based on what is working.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. These options let parents and busy adults fit conversations into their day and follow up between sessions. Using remote formats can make it easier to keep momentum on specific goals, practice new communication skills, and access support from anywhere in Florida.

Solution-Focused Therapy

Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, self-esteem issues, stress and anxiety, grief, anger, career concerns, bipolar and depression.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions focus on communication skills, short-term goals, and steps you can try between meetings.
What is her professional background?
She has 14 years of experience working with clients on family, relationship, trauma, and life transition issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - FL LMFT MT3238 - and practices in Florida.
In what language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.

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Experience
14 years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English

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