- anger management strategies
- CBT and DBT techniques
- trauma processing with EMDR
About Esther
Esther Bold is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices in Alaska and focuses on day-to-day struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and anger. Esther also works with people facing addiction, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, and career or life changes.
Her style is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions look at how past relationships and current patterns affect feelings and behaviors. Esther uses practical strategies from cognitive-behavioral and dialectical approaches alongside attachment-based work. EMDR is part of her toolkit for trauma processing.
Clients can expect clear goals and hands-on techniques to manage overwhelming emotions. She talks through coping skills, communication habits, and ways to reduce reactivity in heated moments. There is attention to how stress and compassion fatigue affect functioning and decision making.
Esther also helps people address family-of-origin issues, abandonment themes, blended family challenges, and the effects of chronic illness or pain on mood and relationships. She includes work on boundaries, codependency, and commitment concerns when relevant.
Her practice recognizes the occupational pressures some people face, including first responder stress and substance use concerns. For people living with ADHD or co-occurring conditions, sessions balance symptom strategies with daily-life problem solving. To begin, visitors use the site matching process and schedule a first session.
Esther conducts sessions in English and practices in Alaska under an LPC credential. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How Esther’s approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape emotional responses and expectations for closeness. Online sessions can use this work to identify patterns that fuel anger or mistrust and practice new ways of relating in current relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down thoughts, feelings, and actions to find practical changes. It is useful for managing anger, anxiety, and depressive thinking by teaching concrete skills and homework exercises to apply between sessions.
EMDR is a trauma-focused approach that helps process distressing memories and the feelings attached to them. When appropriate, the therapist adapts EMDR into an online rhythm so clients can do trauma processing through guided sets and integration work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Esther will discuss goals and preferences and decide together which methods to emphasize. That collaborative process helps match skills work, attachment-focused exploration, or trauma processing to what the client needs most.
Confirm the current online session options before booking because the biography does not list formats explicitly. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time so sessions are more practical for busy lives. Licensed professionals will adapt activities, homework, and session pacing to the online setting so clients can keep making steady progress.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Oklahoma, Alaska
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, trauma, relationship and parenting concerns among other issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses practical, skills-based work drawing on CBT and DBT alongside attachment-focused conversations and trauma processing when needed.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Esther has 20 years of experience working with a wide range of mental health and life concerns.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alaska; credential details include AK LPC and OK LPC as provided.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking since the biography does not list specific session formats here.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to start working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule your first session.