About Esther
Esther Enaruwe is a counsellor who speaks plainly about how hard it can feel to start therapy. She knows the first step can bring fear, shame and worry about being judged. Esther uses her own experience of hesitating to seek help to make starting easier for others.
She trained to practise with a focus on what each person needs. Esther draws on client-centred work to make conversations feel respectful and paced to the individual.
How Esther works
She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help with thinking patterns and day-to-day coping. Esther has three years of professional experience and is registered with BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. That registration means she follows recognised professional standards and ethical guidelines.
Sessions cover common issues such as stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. Esther also supports people managing trauma, addictions, grief and relationship strain, plus concerns about body image, parenting and work pressure. She offers help with ADHD-related challenges and compassion fatigue too.
Appointments are available in English and can be taken from the UK or internationally. Esther offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. To start, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a session is scheduled according to availability.
Her style is straightforward and warm. Esther aims to make searching for help feel less daunting and to work with each person to find practical steps they can use between sessions.
Esther lists 4 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Esther's approaches work in online counselling
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and working at your pace so conversations feel less pressured. This approach helps when the main need is to be heard, rebuild confidence and find your own direction.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It offers practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and manage anxiety, low mood or sleep and eating difficulties.
Esther treats the choice of approach as a shared decision. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt methods as work progresses. Finding the right fit is part of the therapy itself and may change over time.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging lets someone reflect in writing between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while accessing registered or accredited professionals.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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