Holly Gardenier, LPC

Holly Gardenier is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with 35 years of clinical experience helping people navigate trauma, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. She works from the belief that individuals often carry the pieces of their own healing and that therapy is a collaborative journey to bring those answers into clearer view. Holly's training includes EMDR certification, mindfulness practices, and cognitive therapy models, and she has advanced training in addressing addictions and other challenging behaviors.

Her approach invites clients to move beyond surface-level symptoms and to explore deeper patterns of feeling and response, including fear, loss, joy, and awareness that shape daily life. She encourages the integration of simple practices such as daily meditation to support clarity and decision making, and she blends skills-based interventions with an attuned, client-centered stance. Holly aims to create a compassionate therapeutic atmosphere where people can tolerate uncertainty, process grief, and build new ways of coping. She is experienced in supporting a wide range of issues including mood disorders, anxiety, intimacy concerns, eating-related struggles, and the impacts of trauma. Holly looks forward to working alongside clients as they pursue meaningful change and greater resilience.

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites clients to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to commit to actions that align with personal values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and situations where making meaningful life changes feels challenging.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) builds practical skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. It is often helpful for intense emotions, relationship conflict, and patterns of impulsive or self-harming behavior.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship in which the therapist listens deeply and mirrors the client’s experience to support self-discovery and growth. This approach suits people seeking a supportive environment to explore identity, loss, or life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Holly will work collaboratively with each person to select or blend methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Licensed professionals adjust interventions over time so the work stays relevant and effective.

Online therapy via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility for busy schedules, mobility limitations, or distance. These options make regular contact with a therapist more accessible and can help people maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into everyday life.