Holly Gardenier, LPC

Holly Gardenier is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 35 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing issues such as anger, addiction, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and grounded, aimed at helping people manage intense feelings and make clearer choices.

Holly focuses on practical tools alongside reflective work. She draws on approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Existential Therapy. She often encourages regular mindfulness or meditation practices to support day-to-day decision making and emotional regulation.

Her background includes long experience addressing trauma, grief, and troublesome behaviors related to addiction and eating issues. She has worked with people navigating identity concerns, intimacy and attachment problems, and complicated family histories. Holly pays attention to how past losses and patterns shape present reactions, especially anger and shame.

Sessions typically combine skills practice with deeper reflection. Clients who struggle with snapping at loved ones, workplace frustration, or built-up resentment are invited to learn strategies for tolerating strong emotions and communicating differently. Holly helps people notice patterns, try new responses, and build small sustainable routines.

She offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Costs vary with location and services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, the standard step is to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the online therapy options button.

How Holly’s approaches translate to online sessions