Hope Holman
Compassionate, practical support for everyday parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Hope
Hope Holman greets visitors with a calm, straightforward presence. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years in the mental health field. Readers will find a warm, nonjudgmental tone and a focus on practical support.
Hope writes plainly and aims to help parents and individuals facing everyday challenges feel heard and steady. Her approach centers on building on strengths and teaching tools that people can use between sessions.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered methods to help people notice patterns, try different responses, and set manageable goals. Sessions are meant to be supportive while also encouraging change. Hope earned her Bachelor of Social Work and Master of Social Work from Saint Leo University.
She is licensed in Virginia as an LCSW with licence number VA LCSW 0904011440. Her background includes years of varied practice settings and work with a wide range of concerns, from anxiety and depression to parenting and grief. In the room she keeps things straightforward and compassionate.
Conversations tend to focus on small, practical steps - breathing and grounding skills, behavior tracking, reorganizing daily routines, and improving communication. She emphasizes collaboration and clear next steps after each meeting. Prospective clients can expect a therapist who values steady progress and realistic goals.
Hope encourages questions, offers encouragement, and meets people where they are as they work toward more balanced daily life.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Hope draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to guide online work. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches tools for changing unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. ACT focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and values-based action, helping people stay engaged with what matters even when feelings are hard.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Hope collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She tailors techniques so they make sense for daily life and the challenges a parent or individual brings to sessions.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let therapists and clients see each other and practice skills together. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging provide shorter or more frequent check-ins and allow support when it fits a day. These options make it easier to use therapy tools between meetings and keep progress steady.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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