Hi, I’m Holly!

A person with short hair, glasses, and tattoos on their arms, wearing a blazer over a blue striped shirt, standing with arms crossed and smiling, leaning against a white textured wall.
A person with short hair, glasses, and tattoos on their arms, wearing a blazer over a blue striped shirt, standing with arms crossed and smiling, leaning against a white textured wall.

My name is Holly Herzfeld, and I use they/them pronouns. I am a body-centered psychotherapist who works with adults, couples, and families.

My clinical experience includes residential eating disorder care, queer-affirming integrated healthcare, community-based dance/movement therapy with people experiencing homelessness, and outpatient private practice specializing in complex trauma. Across these settings, I have developed an approach that recognizes the ways our experiences live not only in our thoughts and stories, but also in our bodies, relationships, and communities.

My Approach

I believe therapy is a collaborative, relational process rooted in curiosity and authenticity. I approach my work through a strengths- and abundance-based lens, viewing clients as active agents in their own healing and supporting them in recognizing and accessing the resources they already hold.

Most of our sessions will involve sitting and talking, but therapy can take many forms. Depending on your needs and interests, we may incorporate movement, dance, drawing, music, clay, or other creative approaches. These practices are always optional and collaborative, offering additional ways to explore and express experiences that may be difficult to access through words alone.

I deeply believe in the arts as a transformative vehicle for exploration and liberation, and I love witnessing clients reconnect with a sense of possibility and agency in their lives.

Areas of focus…

  • Complex trauma, an experience that develops from recurring and prolonged exposure to traumatic events, can impact how we relate to our bodies, ourselves, and the world around us. Through body-based and creative approaches, therapy can create space to explore these experiences in ways that extend beyond words and support a deeper sense of agency and self-understanding.

    “Creative art therapies effectively address complex trauma by letting senses tell the story, since trauma is encoded as a form of sensory, implicit reality.” —Cathy Malchiodi

  • As a queer therapist, I understand how systemic oppression and societal expectations can shape our experiences of ourselves and the world around us. I bring this awareness into my work through a strengths-based approach that honors each client’s unique experiences, identities, and ways of navigating the world. Together, we can create space to cultivate courage, self-acceptance, and a deeper sense of connection to yourself.

  • Eating disorders represent a larger relationship with how an individual has adapted their actions, feelings, and thoughts to reflect conflicts that are occurring internally. With experience working in residential eating disorder care, I offer clinical care that honors the complexity disordered eating while helping clients build a more compassionate and connected relationship with themselves.

  • My clinical work with movement-based disorders supports both the physical and emotional experiences that can accompany changes in movement and mobility. Through attention to balance, coordination, gait, mobility, fatigue, anxiety, and mood, I create space for clients to reconnect with their bodies in ways that feel safe and accessible. Movement can also offer a form of expression when words feel difficult to access, allowing clients to explore their experiences and build greater comfort and confidence in their bodies.

See my work in action:

In 2022, I co-founded a dance/movement therapy group at InToto Creative Arts Forum in Birmingham, Alabama. Watch this piece filmed by Monograph that was featured on Alabama Public Television!