Holly Keyser
Practical, calm therapy for stress and trauma
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Holly
Holly Keyser is a licensed professional counselor with more than two decades of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and concerns around intimacy and self-esteem. She also supports those affected by trauma and abuse and people navigating relationship and family issues.
Her approach feels straightforward and warm. She combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new responses.
Background and approach
She can be nurturing and supportive, and she also speaks plainly and directly when that helps move things forward. Holly draws on 24 years of practice in Wisconsin as an LPC - licensed professional counselor. Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns, including bipolar disorder, LGBT-related issues, and chronic health or caregiver stress.
She brings practical techniques alongside steady empathy. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. People can expect a mix of talking, skill-building, and straightforward feedback aimed at improving day-to-day coping.
Holly encourages collaboration so clients feel heard and involved in decisions about their care. She offers multiple online formats to fit different needs and schedules. The work aims to reduce symptoms and improve functioning over time, with attention to each person’s values and priorities.
How Holly’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and creating a supportive space. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns back plainly, and helps people feel understood. This approach can help when someone needs acceptance and steadiness before trying new skills.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It offers clear tools for anxiety, depression, stress, and related problems by teaching practical skills to manage symptoms and reactions.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on safety, stabilization, and processing traumatic experiences when the person is ready. It uses targeted strategies to reduce trauma-related symptoms while building coping skills for daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Adjustments happen as goals evolve so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and needs, allowing ongoing work from home or other convenient places. Licensed professionals can use these formats to practice the same core approaches and tools they use in person, helping people progress without added travel time.
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.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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