About Esther
Esther Geffner is a licensed mental health counselor with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She holds a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and carries the LMHC and LPC credentials. Esther practices in New York and offers sessions in English.
She welcomes people who are ready to take a first step toward change. Esther focuses on trauma and post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety. She also helps with relationship strain, self-esteem, grief, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting stress, anger, career shifts, and navigating life changes.
Background and approach
She describes her approach as integrative and practical, mixing different methods to match each person’s needs. In sessions she uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral methods, motivational approaches, and solution-focused techniques. That means sessions often include talking through patterns, trying short experiments between meetings, and setting clear, manageable goals.
Esther aims to make recommendations people can use during a busy week. Her style is calm and direct. Esther tries to create a trustworthy space where people can say what feels hard and test new ways of coping.
She combines practical skill-building and honest conversation to help people feel more steady. To begin, she asks people to describe the main struggle and what change would look like. From there she and the client set priorities and track small steps toward those goals.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Esther uses evidence-based approaches that fit well into remote sessions. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; they help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and day-to-day stress by giving clear steps to practice between meetings. Motivational techniques help people find and strengthen their own reasons for change and are useful when motivation feels low or goals seem unclear. Solution-focused work emphasizes small, achievable goals and practical strategies to move forward quickly, which can be helpful for coping with life changes and immediate concerns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Esther will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face without traveling. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, quick skills practice, and follow-up between scheduled sessions. These options help people maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist 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
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