About Esther
Esther Bold is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices in Alaska and brings steady, experienced support for people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction. Esther writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person she meets.
Esther focuses on real-life changes and practical skills. She helps people who are wrestling with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, and career or identity shifts.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make everyday routines feel more manageable and to build tools that fit a client’s life. Her work blends a few established approaches to match what each person needs. Esther uses cognitive strategies to address difficult thinking patterns and attachment ideas to look at how relationships affect emotions.
She also draws from emotion regulation skills when intense feelings come up in session. People working with her can expect a straightforward, respectful style. Conversations move at a pace a client chooses and focus on actionable steps between sessions.
Esther pays attention to cultural and personal background when shaping next steps. Esther offers multiple online formats so therapy can fit into busy schedules in Alaska. She explains options and helps people pick the best session style for their needs.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling follow the Start Therapy button.
How Esther’s Approaches Work in Online Therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape how a person connects and reacts. Online work can focus on patterns in current relationships and practice new ways of relating in real time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more useful thinking. In remote sessions Esther guides clients through simple exercises and homework to change thoughts and daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Esther works collaboratively to match methods to a client's goals, needs, and preferences. She explains options, tries approaches that fit, and adjusts the plan as progress and feedback come in.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy or unpredictable schedules. Video calls let conversations mirror in-person sessions while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing processing between meetings. These formats increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent over time.
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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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