About Gloria
Gloria Holland is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical strategies that help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Gloria speaks plainly and guides clients through steady, doable steps toward feeling more in control. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge unhelpful thoughts.
Mindfulness techniques help clients notice their reactions and reduce overwhelm. Trauma-focused methods address painful events and their ongoing effects in daily life.
Gloria draws on decades of work with individuals, couples, and family-related concerns to tailor a plan that fits each person. She pays attention to relationship patterns, communication problems, and issues like abandonment or codependency that often underlie repeated struggles.
Sessions aim to build skills that carry into real situations outside therapy. Her approach balances short-term problem solving with deeper work when it’s needed.
Clients often practice new behaviors between sessions and review what helps. Gloria emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and supports people as they try different strategies.
Based in Mississippi, she offers multiple formats for connecting. The focus is on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly and begin to make changes that matter to them.
How Gloria’s Approaches Work Online
Gloria uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of painful events and support recovery from intrusive memories and strong emotional reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gloria will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan over time based on what proves most useful during sessions and in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent even with a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English