Holly Gardenier, LPC
Wisconsin · 35 years in practice
Holly Gardenier is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LPC, Wisconsin
- 4187-125 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1669506846 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 35
- 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 Gardenier is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and major life changes. She writes and speaks plainly about the struggles that bring people to therapy and aims to help them find more meaning and steadiness.
Holly's approach is down-to-earth and rooted in listening first, then helping people try practical steps that fit their lives. Over 35 years of practice, Holly has worked with people facing trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and substance-related issues, and identity questions.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that help with emotion regulation, tolerance for uncertainty, and reconnecting to values. That can look like learning simple mindfulness exercises, practicing new ways to respond to strong feelings, or talking through painful memories at a pace the client controls. Holly blends existential ideas about meaning with skills-based tools from acceptance and commitment work and dialectical behavior approaches.
She also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused methods to keep the conversation grounded in what matters to each person. Sessions are practical and conversational, with attention to immediate coping and longer-term questions. She offers sessions from Wisconsin and works in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. The goal is to help people move through loss, reduce distress, and reconnect with values that matter in daily life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Holly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Holly names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused 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
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Holly blends existential exploration with skills-style therapies to help people manage distress and find direction. Existential Therapy helps people talk about meaning, choice, and the big questions that come up during loss or life transitions. It focuses on identifying values and making choices that feel authentic rather than offering quick fixes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical ways to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match what matters most. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress related to life changes.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Holly will work with each person to see what fits their goals, preferences, and life demands, adjusting methods as needed. That could mean emphasizing values work one week and emotion regulation skills the next, depending on progress and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make regular work on these issues easier. Video calls let people practice conversation and observe nonverbal cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier on busy days, and live chat or text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins or when a written reflection helps. These options help fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping focus on practical coping and deeper meaning work.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Holly address?
She works with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, eating concerns, anger, bipolar mood issues, stress, intimacy-related problems, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Holly combines an existential outlook with practical skills-based work. Sessions are conversational and focused on both immediate coping and exploring deeper meaning.
How much clinical experience is behind her approach?
She brings 35 years of professional experience to her work, which informs a blend of emotion-focused and skills-oriented methods.
Where is she licensed and based?
Holly is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing from Wisconsin.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she is open to working with international clients.
What session formats does she offer online?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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