About Esther
Esther Kennedy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 35 years in behavioral health. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or big life changes. Her tone is warm and straightforward, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Esther uses approaches that emphasize listening and clear tools. She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
Background and approach
Her background includes outpatient work, individual and group therapy, and psychosocial assessments. She has provided services for adults, children, and adolescents in a range of settings. That experience shapes how she adapts tools to fit each person's situation.
Esther has worked with many concerns people bring into therapy. These include trauma and abuse, parenting and family stress, relationship difficulties, anger, ADHD, career questions, and substance misuse. She aims to translate clinical methods into everyday language and actions.
In sessions she emphasizes being nonjudgmental, culturally aware, and empathetic. She encourages practical coping strategies such as mindfulness exercises and behavioral changes. The goal is to help people reduce immediate distress while building skills for longer-term change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Esther commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s goals so sessions match what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques for managing intense emotions and building coping skills. DBT-style skills can help when stress, anger, or relationship conflicts become overwhelming by teaching practical tools like distress tolerance and emotion regulation.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Esther collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they try tools, see what helps, and adjust the plan over time to improve day-to-day functioning.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it simpler to fit sessions around work, school, or parenting. Video is useful for deeper conversations and practice work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text options allow short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats provide flexibility so therapy can happen in ways that suit a person’s routine and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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