Holly Bankston, LPC

Holly Bankston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, depression, and challenges tied to ADHD. She speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps that fit into daily life. Holly aims to create a calm, supportive space so people can notice patterns and try different ways of coping.

Holly uses approaches that emphasize values, skills, and emotional understanding. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters and take steps toward it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Emotionally-Focused and Dialectical Behavior techniques help with emotional awareness and regulation in relationships and personal distress.

With 17 years of experience, Holly works with issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, caregiving stress, and the complexities of aging and geriatric issues. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, body image, and communication problems. Her work often blends talk, skill practice, and real-life experiments.

Holly keeps sessions practical. She helps set small goals, practice coping tools between meetings, and track what changes. People leave with clear steps to try and ways to notice progress.

To begin, readers should confirm current session options and scheduling details before booking since formats are not listed here.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their values and take small, meaningful steps toward them. It focuses on actions that matter more than getting stuck on passing thoughts or feelings and can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches simple experiments and skill practice to test unhelpful thinking and try new responses for mood and stress problems.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and communicating emotions to improve connection in relationships and reduce loneliness or relationship distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on goals, needs, and daily life demands. That means trying a few tools and adjusting as progress is made.

Confirm the session formats available before booking since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It can also let people practice new skills in the environments where they live and relate, then bring observations back to therapy for discussion.