About Esther
Esther Geffner is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor based in New York. She brings 14 years of clinical experience and a focus on trauma, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. Esther aims to help people find practical ways to feel steadier day to day.
Her style blends straightforward conversation with skill-building exercises. Sessions often include looking at thoughts and behaviors, setting small goals, and trying new coping steps between meetings.
Background and approach
Esther uses techniques from cognitive approaches, motivational work, and solution-focused ideas to tailor care to each person. She pays attention to relationship strain, self-esteem, grief, sleep and eating challenges, and life transitions. Esther also supports people dealing with parenting stress, career questions, anger, and attention-related concerns.
Her approach emphasizes clear goals and gradual progress. Esther describes the therapy room as a place to practice new habits. She helps people break problems into manageable parts and track what changes help.
Work can include short-term problem solving or longer tracking of patterns over time. Practicality matters in her work. Expect collaboration on what to try next, straightforward feedback, and flexible use of different therapeutic tools.
Esther encourages small steps that build into reliable routines and more consistent emotional balance.
Practical approaches and online care
Esther uses cognitive-based techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. This approach focuses on identifying specific thoughts that make stress or anxiety worse and testing new ways of thinking to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also uses motivational strategies to boost readiness for change. These methods support people who feel stuck or uncertain by clarifying values, setting small goals, and building momentum through achievable steps.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Esther will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past to pick methods that fit. She adapts plans over time and checks in on progress so the work stays aligned with each person’s needs.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face when schedules allow, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make care more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English