Holly KeyserLPC

Holly Keyser, LPC, helps people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She brings a calm, straightforward manner to sessions and aims to help people make steady progress toward clear goals.

With 24 years of experience, Holly draws on client-centered approaches and cognitive behavioral methods. She offers an approach that balances warmth with practical direction. In sessions she listens first, then helps people identify patterns and try manageable changes.

Holly has worked with a wide range of concerns including addictions, grief, bipolar mood challenges, and LGBT issues. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body-image struggles, codependency, and communication or commitment problems.

People who have faced abuse or trauma are an important focus for her work, and she uses trauma-focused ways of working alongside other approaches when helpful. Her style is direct but nurturing, aiming to help people feel heard while taking concrete steps forward.

Holly practices in Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English. To begin, she guides people through a short matching questionnaire and schedules based on availability. The process is intended to help match personal needs with a practical plan for therapy.

How Holly’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead. The therapist provides empathy and acceptance, helping people feel understood as they talk about worries like anxiety, self-esteem, or relationship concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and then tests small changes. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep repeating in everyday life.

Trauma-Focused Therapy targets the effects of past harm and helps build coping skills. When trauma is part of someone’s story, this approach combines safety, pacing, and techniques to reduce distress over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, needs, and preferences and then recommend whether a client-centered stance, CBT techniques, trauma-focused work, or a blend fits best. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as needed.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life - it can cut travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a work break, or reduce the need to arrange childcare. Ask about current session options when you start so scheduling matches your routine and goals.