About Esther
Esther Bold is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience in Alaska. She draws on long experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and trauma. Esther speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Esther aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful. She listens for what matters most and helps people set small, achievable goals. Sessions often include talking through relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, career stress, and handling big life changes.
How Esther works
Her work blends approaches that match each person's needs. Esther uses client-centered ways to follow the person's lead, cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful patterns, and EMDR when trauma processing is needed. She also pulls from attachment-based ideas to address how past bonds affect current relationships.
Over the years Esther has supported people dealing with chronic pain or illness, grief over separation, substance and alcohol problems, codependency, and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns such as anger, self-esteem, abandonment issues, and first responder stress. Esther offers a calm, steady presence and practical homework between sessions when useful.
Her aim is to help people build clearer coping skills and stronger emotional resilience. She works in English and practices from Alaska as a licensed clinician.
Esther lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Esther works with
The areas below are the ones Esther selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alaska |
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Online support options
How Esther's Approaches Translate to Online Care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and emotions. Online work with this approach can help people notice relationship habits and practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more adaptive ones; it helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear exercises and skills to use between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Esther will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest a mix of techniques. That collaborative plan can change as needs evolve, with regular check-ins about what is most helpful.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging can make brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact easier between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to attend around work, caregiving, or travel.
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A practical next step
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