About Esther
Esther Fendall is a counsellor who uses an integrative approach to help people manage anxiety and other difficult feelings. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through painful thoughts. Esther works at a pace that suits each person and focuses on what feels right for them.
Esther spends sessions listening closely and offering honest, grounded feedback. She helps people make sense of their emotions and life events, and to set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
This can include coping with stress, grief, relationship strain, or problems with self-esteem. Her background includes work in a drug addiction service, a medical practice and voluntary roles for a UK mental health charity. Those varied settings gave practical experience of common problems such as addiction, trauma, and caregiving stress.
Esther is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and follows their Ethical Framework. She draws on different therapeutic techniques to match each person's needs rather than following a single method. She has 14 years of experience and has lived and worked in both the UK and abroad.
Esther now lives by the coast in the United Kingdom and aims to bring a steady, compassionate presence to her online sessions.
How Esther’s approaches work online
Esther describes her work as integrative, which means she combines practical, evidence-based techniques to meet individual needs. That might include focused skills to manage anxiety and stress, and exploratory work to understand patterns formed by past experiences. These methods aim to reduce overwhelm and help people take small, steady steps forward.Esther also draws on approaches that support emotional processing after loss or trauma. This involves gentle pacing, helping people name their feelings and build strategies to cope day to day. For issues like addiction or codependency she helps clients identify triggers and develop alternative ways to respond.
Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Esther works collaboratively to find which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. She discusses options, tries techniques in-session, and adjusts the plan as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Shorter check-ins or written work suit text and chat formats. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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