Hope Holman, LCSW

Hope Holman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia with ten years of experience in mental health care. She offers a warm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, or life changes. Many come for help with parenting, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, or trauma and abuse issues. Hope listens and helps people take the next step toward change.

Hope uses practical talk and straightforward tools in sessions. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and build coping skills. Motivational interviewing is part of her style when people want support making decisions or changing habits.

Her work often addresses family of origin issues, adoption and foster care concerns, body image, caregiver stress, and intimacy or commitment challenges. She also supports people managing anger, career transitions, and chronic emotional pain like emptiness or abandonment wounds. Hope draws on a variety of methods to match what a person needs in the moment.

Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while remaining compassionate. She helps clients set small, manageable steps and tracks progress over time. For many people this looks like learning new coping skills, trying different ways to communicate, and practicing mindfulness and behavior changes between sessions.

Hope is comfortable using phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing care. She aims to create steady, achievable momentum so people feel more in control of their lives and relationships.

Practical therapy approaches for online care

Hope combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and client-centered methods to help people make changes. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or improve mood. ACT helps people clarify values and take steps toward a meaningful life even when hard feelings remain. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and building a supportive relationship so people feel heard while they try new strategies.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit best with a person's goals, preferences, and everyday life. That choice can shift over time as needs change and progress is tracked together.

Online sessions are offered by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are helpful for short check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options let people fit sessions around work, school, and family life while practicing skills between meetings.