About Esther
Esther Bold is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of clinical experience in Alaska. She has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma, and ADHD. Esther focuses on helping individuals understand what gets in the way of daily functioning and relationships.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Esther listens first, then helps clients name problems and try small changes. She uses approaches that address how people relate to themselves and others, how thoughts shape feelings, and how intense emotions can be managed.
Background and approach
Esther often helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, career shifts, chronic health issues, or compassion fatigue from caregiving or first responder work. She also supports those coping with grief, abandonment wounds, and patterns like codependency or substance use. Her work draws from attachment-based and client-centered methods to build safety in the room.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to regulate strong emotions. For trauma, she integrates EMDR when appropriate. Esther aims to make therapy a collaborative process.
She talks through goals with each person and adjusts tools to fit real life. Many people come for short-term coaching around a single issue, while others work on deeper, longer-term change. Clients who choose Esther can expect clear next steps between sessions.
She helps people translate insights into daily routines, communication habits, and coping strategies that feel doable.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions let clients talk about their most important relationships and try new ways of relating in real time. Client-centered therapy centers the person driving their own change through empathic listening and reflection, which fits well with video or phone sessions where conversation is the core of the work.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical exercises to test new ideas. That approach adapts well to online work because homework, thought records, and skill practice can be shared and reviewed between sessions electronically.
Finding the best approach is part of the first sessions. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, daily routine, and comfort with different formats. That process is flexible and can shift as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging work for brief check-ins, mood tracking, coaching, or practicing short skills between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while using the approaches above to support real change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Alaska
- Languages
- English
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