About Esther
Esther Gosnell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and concerns about self-esteem. Esther aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and supportive.
Esther uses clear, straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person. She listens for patterns around attachment, abandonment, control, or codependency and then works with clients to set small, practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can try between meetings and on making daily life feel a bit easier. Her background includes approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, and client-centered work. These approaches inform how she tailors support for things like panic attacks, mood shifts, dissociation, or postpartum challenges.
She explains options in plain language so people can choose what fits them. Esther is attentive to caregiver stress, first responder issues, and the effects of guilt, shame, or past abuse. She helps people talk through communication problems, forgiveness, and finding a clearer sense of life purpose.
Practical steps and real-world tools are emphasized over jargon. Starting therapy with Esther begins with a simple matching process and scheduling. From the first session she aims to create a respectful and sensitive space where goals are clear and progress is measurable.
Online approaches and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values-based action so clients can move toward a life that matters to them despite anxiety or stress.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It can be useful for panic, mood swings, and relationship conflict by building emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.
Esther will work collaboratively to find the best approach for each person. She talks with clients about goals, preferences, and what techniques feel most useful, then adapts the plan over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, step-by-step skill practice, and ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and to match the format to daily needs and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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