About Esther
Esther Bold is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of practice experience in Alaska. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. Clients come for help with parenting strain, intimacy questions, career stress, and major life changes.
Esther aims to make the first steps toward help clear and manageable. Esther blends straightforward talk with active listening. She uses approaches that fit each person's situation instead of a one-size plan.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and processing difficult memories when needed. She also works on building self-esteem and coping strategies that can be used day to day. Her background includes long-term clinical work with people facing chronic pain, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
That experience shapes how she structures sessions and sets realistic goals. Esther pays attention to how family of origin and past losses affect present choices. In sessions she helps clients identify unhelpful patterns and try new ways of relating.
She teaches grounding and emotion-regulation tools when intense feelings arise. For people recovering from trauma she may use methods to reduce the hold of painful memories. Esther aims to collaborate on a plan that fits each person's life and responsibilities.
She explains options and checks in about progress often. Many clients value clear feedback and practical homework between visits.
How Esther adapts therapy approaches for online care
Esther commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current bonds and trust. This approach helps people who struggle with closeness, abandonment concerns, or repeating relationship patterns.She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and managing daily routines and reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Esther reviews needs, goals, and preferences, and then suggests methods to try. She checks progress and adjusts the plan so it fits the person's life and responsibilities.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits ongoing, brief support between sessions. Those options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit care into busy lives.
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What this counselor 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