About Esther
Esther Guilhot is an AASW social worker with 20 years of psychotherapy and counselling experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress, and helps people manage relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns and big life changes. Esther draws on her lived experience of relational trauma, neurodiversity and recovery to offer practical support and hope.
Esther creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings. She listens for the patterns that keep someone stuck and introduces small, doable steps to change those patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be down-to-earth and focused on what matters most in everyday life. Her practice uses therapies that help with thoughts, emotions and relationships. Esther may work with acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build flexible coping.
She also draws on attachment-informed approaches to improve emotional connection and safety in relationships. For people facing panic, mood swings, or rumination, cognitive behavioural techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test different responses. Dialectical skills can help with intense emotion and impulsive reactions, while emotionally-focused ideas guide conversations about closeness and repair.
Esther also supports people dealing with career stress, parenting strain, caregiver fatigue and identity questions. She aims to help clients reconnect with purpose, manage triggers, and build routines that sustain recovery and wellbeing.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Esther uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters and take small actions that align with those values. ACT supports people who are anxious or stuck by shifting focus from fighting thoughts to building a meaningful life. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to understand how early relationship patterns affect present connections and to practise new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Esther will work with each person to decide which methods fit best with their goals, values and day-to-day life. Therapies can be blended and adjusted over time so the plan remains relevant as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer a hands-free option with lower bandwidth, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments while still enabling meaningful therapeutic work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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