Holly Caruso
Calm guidance for stressful life changes
- Credentials
- LCPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Holly
Holly Caruso is a licensed therapist practicing in Florida who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and other difficult life changes. She brings 20 years of clinical experience to conversations about identity, intimacy, substance concerns, and mood challenges. Holly aims to create a calm, respectful space where a parent or caregiver can talk through what feels overwhelming right now.
Her sessions tend to be practical and down to earth.
Background and approach
She listens closely, helps set small goals, and introduces tools that can be used between meetings. Common topics include coping skills for anxiety, strategies for improving communication, and plans for handling major transitions. Holly uses methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness practices.
She adapts techniques to match each person’s needs and comfort level rather than following a strict protocol. Sessions often combine talking, skills practice, and straightforward problem solving. Holly holds the Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential, listed as IL LCPC 180.007510 and FL LMHC MH20030.
Her practice includes concerns such as trauma and abuse, addictions, parenting stress, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and eating-related issues. People who come to her can expect a collaborative process that focuses on immediate concerns and gradual progress. She works to make therapy understandable and useful, offering concrete steps for coping and growth.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offers empathy, and helps people identify what they want to change. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and routines. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and situations where patterns of thinking keep problems going. Sessions include clear tasks and small experiments to try between meetings.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through simple exercises. It can reduce reactivity to stress and help with emotion regulation when feelings feel overwhelming. Techniques are short and can be practiced during daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose and adjust methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That way the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, follow up between meetings, and keep continuity during life changes. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver skills, check progress, and support problem solving without requiring travel.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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