Holly Caruso, LCPC, LMHC

Holly Caruso is a licensed counselor with 20 years of experience helping people facing big life changes. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental presence for those dealing with stress, anxiety, identity questions, grieving, or shifts in work and relationships.

Holly focuses on practical support. She listens to what matters to each person and helps them develop skills for day-to-day life. Conversations often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, practising mindfulness skills, and setting small steps toward change.

Her work pays close attention to identity and intimacy concerns, including questions common in LGBTQ+ lives and sexual health. She also supports clients coping with trauma, addiction, mood differences such as depression and bipolar, and attention-related challenges like ADHD.

Holly uses several straightforward approaches to guide sessions, including client-centered work that tailors sessions to individual needs, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift thinking and behavior, and motivational strategies to build momentum. She blends these tools to match what each person finds most useful.

Holly is licensed in Illinois and Florida as an LCPC and an LMHC, and she works from Florida. People meet her for help with career stress, family role strain, body image, grief, and parenting concerns among other issues. To start, visitors typically complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Client-centered work focuses on understanding what matters to the person and shaping sessions around their goals. In online sessions this means the therapist follows your lead and adjusts pace, topics, and exercises to fit how you prefer to work.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with practical alternatives. Online CBT often uses short exercises, mood tracking, and concrete homework to make steady progress on anxiety, depression, and stress.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These exercises can be guided in session and practiced between meetings to help with emotion regulation and grounding after difficult experiences.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. That may mean trying a few techniques and adjusting as needed.

Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time so people can access help from different locations. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver the same therapeutic tasks you would work on in person, adapted to fit your routine.