Holly Gardenier, LPC

Wisconsin · 35 years in practice

Holly Gardenier is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing anxiety, grief, addiction, and other painful life challenges.

License and registration

LPC, Wisconsin: 4187-125 · expires February 2027
NPI: 1669506846 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 35
Languages: English

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About Holly

Holly Gardenier is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing anxiety, grief, addiction, and other painful life challenges. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Holly aims to help clients find clearer purpose and better ways to make everyday decisions.

She draws on 35 years of experience guiding people through trauma, loss, and major life changes. Her work uses practical skills from acceptance and commitment approaches, emotion-focused conversation, and strategies that build distress tolerance.

Background and approach

Mindfulness and short daily practices are often suggested to make progress steady and manageable. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and connecting that to life patterns. Holly pays attention to attachment, family-of-origin themes, and issues like codependency or abandonment that can shape relationships.

She also addresses concerns such as eating and food-related problems, gender dysphoria, and struggles with guilt, shame, or emptiness. Her experience includes extensive work with substance-related problems and other high-risk behaviors. Holly helps people develop safety strategies, coping tools, and practical steps for change.

Conversations can include problem-solving, emotion regulation skills, and relational exploration. Holly offers therapy through a variety of online formats and accepts international clients. She works from Wisconsin and holds the LPC credential, which she uses to support people seeking steadier footing through hard times.

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

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Online support

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Holly uses approaches that balance skills training with deeper emotional work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and take practical steps toward what matters. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers clear strategies for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships when feelings feel overwhelming. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on what happens in close relationships and helps people name and work with the emotions that shape how they connect with others.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Holly collaborates with each person to decide which approaches help most given their goals, history, and daily life. She will check in and adjust the plan as learning and healing unfold so therapy stays relevant and useful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for deeper conversations and exercises, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low, and messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These formats make it easier to access consistent care across time zones and busy lives.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Holly commonly address?

She works with a wide range of issues including trauma and abuse, addictions, anxiety, depression, grief, eating and intimacy-related concerns.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Holly combines client-centered listening with practical skills from approaches like ACT, DBT, and emotionally-focused methods to help people manage emotions and make choices aligned with their values.

How much experience does she have?

Holly has 35 years of clinical experience working with trauma, grief, substance-related problems, and other life changes.

Where is she licensed and located?

She practices from Wisconsin and holds the LPC credential granted in that state.

In which languages can sessions be held?

Sessions are offered in English, and she also accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

Holly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different communication needs.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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