About Esther
Esther Lowery is a therapist who blends attachment-focused and client-centered approaches to help people manage relationship and life challenges. She holds an MD and is licensed as a clinical marriage and family therapist - LCMFT and LMFT - and brings 13 years of clinical experience in Maryland. Esther focuses on relationship and intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes.
She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, eating concerns, anger, career stress, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Her work addresses a wide range of related issues such as abandonment, attachment wounds, family of origin problems, and communication difficulties. In sessions she treats each person as the expert on their own life. She listens to what matters most and helps people notice strengths they already have.
Conversations are practical and aimed at small, doable changes that add up over time. Esther uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when helpful, alongside attachment-based and existential perspectives. That combination lets her address thoughts and behaviors while also exploring meaning and relationship patterns.
People who work with her can expect straightforward planning, skill practice, and regular check-ins on progress. She helps clients set realistic goals and adapt strategies to daily life. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make the process understandable and manageable.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds influence present relationships and emotional responses; it helps people understand patterns that repeat in close connections and supports building safer, more trusting ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, offering empathic listening and nonjudgmental support so clients can identify their priorities and make choices that fit their lives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and helps people try practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for mood, anxiety, ADHD symptoms, and behavior changes.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest approaches or blends that fit. Sessions are collaborative, with regular check-ins to see what is working and what to adjust.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or working skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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