Holly Gardenier offers calm, steady support for people facing loss, addiction, or major life changes.
01About Holly
Holly Gardenier offers calm, steady support for people facing loss, addiction, or major life changes. She focuses on helping people reduce anxiety, manage depression, and cope with grief in everyday life. Her style is straightforward and person-centered, aimed at practical steps that fit real schedules and routines.
Holly brings 35 years of experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she practices from Wisconsin. She uses a mix of approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often include mindfulness practices and simple exercises to try between meetings. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult feelings. Holly helps people name patterns, set small goals, and build skills for handling stress, anger, or cravings.
She also supports those dealing with identity questions and relationship struggles related to intimacy or attachment. Her background includes long-term clinical work with trauma, grief, and addictive behaviors, and she draws on that experience to tailor plans that feel doable. Conversations are collaborative - Holly listens first, then offers options for change that respect the person’s values.
Therapy is offered in several online formats to fit different life needs. Holly welcomes people who prefer video, phone, chat, or messaging sessions and helps them find a rhythm that works for their week.
02Credentials
- LPC (Wisconsin)
- License 4187-125 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1669506846 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Holly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Holly names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Holly names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Holly commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. DBT offers practical coping skills for managing intense emotions and reducing harmful behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift patterns in close relationships to increase connection and safety.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Holly listens to each person’s story and goals, then recommends methods that fit their needs and values. She checks in regularly to see what is helping and adjusts the plan so it stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat allow shorter check-ins or more flexible scheduling. These options let people keep continuity of care while juggling work, family, or travel.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Holly address?
She helps people dealing with addictions, grief, depression, anxiety, stress, and trauma-related issues, along with intimacy and eating concerns.
How does she approach therapy?
Her style is collaborative and practical, using person-centered techniques plus ACT, DBT, and Emotionally-Focused ideas to build skills and clarify values.
What is her professional background?
Holly has 35 years of clinical experience working with trauma, grief, and addictive behaviors and blends that experience into individual care plans.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from Wisconsin.
Can people who live outside the U.S. work with her?
Yes. Sessions can be provided to international clients, and services are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by clicking the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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