About Esther
Esther Steinberg is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and problems tied to relationships, family life, parenting, and career. Esther uses straightforward, person-focused work to help clients feel heard and build practical skills.
Her sessions aim to form a close working partnership. She combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and psychodynamic ideas. That means conversations about current problems, noticing patterns from the past, and trying out new ways of coping that actually fit your life.
How Esther works
Esther has four years of clinical experience across mental health and school settings. She has supported people facing trauma and abuse, grief, anger, body-image concerns, mood disorders, social anxiety, and women’s issues. Her background gives her a range of approaches to draw on when a client needs a different perspective.
In practice she works with each person to build a plan that fits their goals and daily routines. Sessions often focus on clearer thinking, reducing strong emotions, and step-by-step changes you can try between meetings. Esther keeps language simple and focuses on practical next steps.
People who want a collaborative, warm therapist who uses both talk and skills-based work may find her style helpful. She aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first session onward.
Esther lists 3 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
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Esther's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person in front of the therapist. In online sessions this looks like a warm, listening stance where the therapist follows your priorities and helps you make sense of what matters most. It is useful for concerns like low self-esteem, relationship stress, and parenting worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include brief exercises, thought records, and small experiments you can try between meetings to reduce anxiety or lift mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Esther will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, comfort with different tools, and day-to-day life. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds so the approach stays useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a short check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for brief updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy routine and keep continuity when schedules change.
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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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