Holly DeBevoise

Supervised Graduate Therapist

• EMDRIA Trained Therapist

Holly came to counseling through a lifelong curiosity about people, inner worlds, identity, and the ways people learn to protect themselves. Growing up as a quiet observer, she developed a deep awareness of others and a strong capacity for listening without judgment. Therapy later became transformational in her own life, helping her move into a more compassionate, responsible, and connected relationship with herself, other people, creativity, queerness, and spirituality.

Her path as a therapist is shaped by experiences of deconstructing Christianity, coming into queer identity, developing a self-determined spirituality, and becoming more aware of how injustice, shame, disconnection, and oppressive systems impact people’s lives. Holly is especially influenced by liberation psychology, queer theory, narrative work, parts work, somatic approaches, and the belief that therapy should honor the client’s own understanding of their identity, culture, body, relationships, and lived experience.

Holly is drawn to working with people who may feel like they live on the edges of what is considered “normal” or acceptable. She welcomes clients who feel too weird, too much, too complicated, too creative, too sensitive, too questioning, or too outside-the-box for traditional therapy spaces. She is especially interested in working with queer and trans clients, neurodivergent clients, artists and creatives, teens, adults, couples, people navigating religious or spiritual trauma, and those exploring identity, sexuality, grief, trauma, perfectionism, dissociation, and alternative relationship structures.

Her therapy style is deeply relational, collaborative, curious, and engaged. Holly believes that much of therapy’s power comes from the relationship between therapist and client, and she works to create a space where clients feel safely engaged rather than analyzed from a distance. She can be both nurturing and gently challenging, and she welcomes humor, play, creativity, and honest conversation. When words are not enough, Holly is open to expressive and creative forms of processing, including drawing, movement, writing, imagery, and other forms of self-expression.

Holly draws from narrative therapy, IFS/parts work, somatic theories, expressive arts, liberation psychology, and relational approaches. She pays attention not only to what clients say, but also to what their bodies, protective systems, histories, relationships, cultures, and internal worlds may be communicating. Her goal is not to force clients into a clinical box, but to work with them in a way that respects their autonomy, complexity, and humanity.

Holly is drawn to EMDR because it offers a holistic way of working with trauma. EMDR acknowledges memory, narrative, emotion, body sensations, nervous system responses, and the larger contexts that shape a person’s experience. She is especially interested in the way EMDR can help people safely access and work with their internal world, especially when trauma has made that world feel dark, unsafe, fragmented, or unreachable.

Holly is currently completing her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Antioch University, with expected graduation in August 2027. She has training and personal insight related to queer, trans/nonbinary, neurodivergent, spiritually traumatized, and deconverted populations. She also has training related to domestic violence and out-of-control sexual behavior. In addition to her counseling training, Holly has a long background as a practicing visual artist and writer, as well as a decade of experience in the service industry — so yes, she gets it.

Holly hopes clients experience her as grounding, genuine, inviting, collaborative, imaginative, and engaged. She wants clients to feel warmth, curiosity, expansiveness, and a sense of autonomy in the therapy relationship. She believes therapy works best when clients feel able to advocate for themselves, shape the direction of the work, and bring forward the parts of themselves they may have been told were too strange, too intense, too taboo, or too hard to understand.

Areas of focus

• Queer identity and LGBTQIA+ issues

• Trans and nonbinary identity

• Neurodivergence — ADHD and Autism

• Trauma and complex trauma

• Religious trauma and spiritual deconstruction

• Spirituality and meaning-making

• Grief, death, and loss

• Dissociation

• Perfectionism

• Shame and self-worth

• Emotional regulation

• Identity development

• Sexuality, kink, and sexual concerns

• Alternative relationship structures

• Creative blocks and artistic identity

• Body respect, body image, and HAES-aligned care

Services

• Individual therapy

• EMDR trauma therapy

• In-person and telehealth

Fees

$35–$100 per session, sliding scale. You choose the amount you can afford.

Ages & populations

Adults, teens, couples, LGBTQIA+ clients, queer and trans clients, neurodivergent clients, artists and creatives