About Esther
Esther Priegue is an LCSW based in New York who combines practical skills with steady support. She draws on long experience to help people manage anxiety, stress, low mood, and trauma. Esther speaks English and Spanish and uses straightforward talk to help people take the next steps.
She believes people know their stories and have strengths to build on. In sessions she helps clients identify small, doable changes. Esther focuses on tools that reduce worry, improve sleep, and lift motivation so everyday life feels more manageable.
Background and approach
Her practice draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral work and techniques for emotion regulation. She uses structured exercises and goal-focused conversations to address patterns that keep people stuck. Esther also brings trauma-focused methods when past events affect current safety or functioning.
Esther has 25 years of clinical experience as a licensed clinical social worker. That background includes helping people cope with grief, relationship challenges, chronic illness, and major life changes. She works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and issues tied to family of origin.
Sessions can include brief check-ins, skill practice, and planning between meetings. Esther helps people prioritize next steps and tailors the pace to individual needs. She aims to make therapy clear, practical, and focused on everyday improvements.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Esther uses cognitive behavioral approaches that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. These methods are useful for worries, sleep problems, and motivation issues.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy ideas to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Those techniques help people manage intense feelings, improve communication, and handle triggers without getting overwhelmed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Esther will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then recommend techniques and a pace that fit. She adapts tools to the online format and checks in regularly to make sure the plan is helpful.
The online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for longer conversations and skill practice, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework review, or shorter exchanges between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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