Testimonials

“Holly maintains the difficult balance of professionalism and caring.  She has the best visuals and comparisons – sometimes so specific and wonderfully strange- but they always resonate because she knows me so well. I feel like she personalizes her approach to me rather than forcing me to fit into a specific structure.  She has heard some bizarre sh** come out of my mouth and she still shows up and holds space. Unbelievable!”

“Her exceptional attunement and tracking.  She invites the darkest, most shadowy parts of myself forward into the session and allows those parts compassionate attention to support their integration into my Self.  I often mask my darkest parts through my people-pleasing tendencies.  She skillfully sees around the mask and lowers my defenses by her truly nonjudgmental stance.”

“When I started therapy, I experienced chronic physical impacts from bottling up stress, anxiety, and feelings of worthlessness that I had been taught to ignore as “just stress”.  Working with Holly is some of the hardest work I have done and also some of the most rewarding.  Her ability to create a trusting and safe space for me to talk about some of my deepest fears and anxieties has created transformational change for me – not only physically, but also in my relationships with my loved ones and in the ways that I address and move through my life.”

“That I feel the shift in myself.  That I have moved from survival behaviors (some toxic and self-deprecating) to a space of awareness, self-compassion and curiosity about who I am. I’ve never known myself or even cared to know myself until Holly helped me break through the learned patterns and open to a new belief system.”

“Holly is the first therapist that I have worked with who LISTENED to me.  She never tried to force her opinion or process on my healing but instead showed up to be a part of my process and guide me through it with her knowledge and expertise.  She is the first person in my life to give me a genuine safe space to heal.  And I know she does that for anyone who is willing to trust her with their process.”

“I have learned SO MUCH about myself and how my inner self has unconsciously impacted the choices and decisions I make.  Holly has helped me see the ways in which I can truly learn about and listen to my inner self to create alignment that makes me feel good.”

“My cup is full in regards to therapy.  I get safety, healing, insight, and guidance to help me process outside of session.  No gaps for me!”

“She lets me talk and talk and asks good guiding questions – she is not afraid to push me the exact right amount to talk about the “real” issues so I am never wasting my time.”

“Holly is very relationship based in her approach. She knows more about me than anyone else, and helps me use what I learn about me to make the changes I am looking for.”

[what has surprised you most during your time with Holly] “Just how well she “sees” and tracks me.”

“Holly is, I believe, the ninth therapist I have worked with individually. We have been working together for less than a year- in that short time we have begun to address issues that I would not have imagined dealing with.  I can actually feel growth and change as a result of this process.”

“Since my experience began as marriage counseling it was critical that we had a therapist that both of us could trust- this is not always easy to find- but in this case we both felt at ease with Holly from the start”

“There is a balance in our dialogue between easy exchanges and complicated questions.  I have been comfortable enough to share some really difficult things with Holly when I need to, but I also know that she will have no problem telling me when she thinks that I am being less than honest- with her as well as with myself.”

“Honestly, I feel a lot more hopeful than I have in a long time.  I know that there are a lot of factors involved here, but I will go out on a limb and say that my therapist deserves at least some of the credit for that.  Also, I have managed to be honest about some stuff that I have literally told no one else on the planet, and I couldn’t do that if the trust wasn’t there.”

“I appreciate how she holds so much space for a process to feel like it develops completely organically all while carefully and compassionately guiding healing to where it needs to go.”

“…My feelings and behaviors have actually shifted! That she can hold as much space as she does and keep showing up to help me heal even when I felt like I can’t or am resistant.”

“She is such a great listener – very early on in my work she made me feel heard and comfortable.”

“What I thought I wanted (and said I wanted when I started therapy) is not at all what I wanted.  Holly has helped me reframe how I look at therapy and the lens that I see my work in therapy and my interactions in everyday life through.”

“I was just appreciating the fact that I can actually relate in terms of dumb stuff that I watch on TV…I think for me it can also be a form of processing… I actually appreciate that I can refer to Tony Soprano or Daenerys Targaryen in therapy and not actually have to explain it or feel stupid.”

“She is dynamic, expressive, engaging.  She is witty and funny and fully present in all of our sessions.”

“She is on the top of my list of recommendations for therapists…Her authenticity, expressiveness, relational stance in therapy is unmatched in the field.  She combines technical skills and years of experience with authentic positive regard and down-to-earth relatability-an intersection that is hard to find among therapists.”