Holly Duffy, LMFT
California · 15 years in practice
Holly Duffy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience helping people make practical changes in their lives.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 111286 · expires January 2027
- NPI
- 1518230150 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Holly
Holly Duffy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of experience helping people make practical changes in their lives. She focuses on clear goals and concrete steps so clients can feel more capable and motivated day to day. Her approach is warm and creative, and she matches her style to each person's needs and preferences.
Holly blends practical tools with emotional work. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and habits.
Background and approach
She pairs that with expressive activities when creative methods would support self-esteem or relationship growth. She also draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs her way of addressing strong feelings and closeness issues.
That mix helps with relationship concerns, grief, and intimacy-related struggles. Holly works with a wide range of life challenges, from anxiety, depression, and trauma to parenting stress, career shifts, and coping with chronic illness. She pays attention to specific areas such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and codependency when those are relevant to a person's story.
Sessions are tailored to what each person needs next - whether that means focused skill work, deeper emotional exploration, or creative exercises. Holly aims to guide clients toward small, doable changes that add up over time. She welcomes questions about how sessions work and next steps.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Holly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Holly names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Holly uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and work with strong emotions that affect relationships and closeness. EFT focuses on how feelings shape interactions and helps people shift unhelpful patterns in how they connect with others.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns show up now. This approach helps identify patterns of seeking or avoiding closeness and supports new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to teach practical skills that change thinking and behavior, useful for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day coping.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods, and adjust what they do based on what helps most. Holly aims to blend emotion work, attachment insight, and concrete skill-building so the plan fits each person's needs.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual connection, phone works when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or text can be helpful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Holly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and more.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and connected but direct when needed. She mixes talking, practical skill work, and creative exercises to match each person's needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience working with people through emotional, behavioral, social, and relational challenges.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - practicing in California.
Can I work with her if I'm not in the United States?
Sessions are offered to international clients and are conducted in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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