About Esther
Esther Zack is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely, aiming to make conversations feel straightforward and manageable. She recognizes that reaching out is a big step and offers steady support as people figure out what comes next.
Esther prioritizes the relationship in therapy. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives and guides them toward clearer choices.
Background and approach
Sessions blend warmth, humor, and practical questions so people can move past what is blocking them. Her background includes six years of clinical experience and long-term work in community support and advocacy with people from many cultural backgrounds. Esther also has lived experience as a single adoptive parent and offers focused support around adoption and foster care concerns.
In sessions she draws from approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused work. Those tools are used to address anxiety, grief, self-esteem, workplace strain, and parenting stresses among other concerns. Esther pays attention to how prejudice and discrimination affect daily life and relationships.
She works with people navigating LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, immigration concerns, and multicultural stressors. Her aim is to help clients find purpose, build self-compassion, and create more satisfying connections.
How Esther’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and connecting actions to personal values; it can help with anxiety, life purpose questions, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to develop practical coping skills for stress, anxiety, and workplace struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to patterns in close relationships and can be useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and family of origin concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Esther will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try different techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. Together they decide which methods feel most helpful for the issues at hand.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time, phone is a lower-bandwidth option for fuller discussion, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging works for quick reflections or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare, and busy schedules while keeping the focus on real progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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