About Esther
Esther Reynolds is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with over 31 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, phobias, depression, and the emotional fallout from trauma. Esther works with individuals on relationship and family concerns, parenting stress, career strain, grief, and questions about intimacy and self-esteem.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Esther listens first and helps clients set clear goals.
Background and approach
She then offers tools drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness to change troubling thoughts and soothe overwhelming feelings. Esther also brings skills from dialectical behavior approaches and EMDR-informed work when trauma or strong emotional reactions are involved. She adapts what she does to each person’s needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Sessions include talking, skill practice, and simple exercises to try between meetings. Her style is collaborative and goal-focused. She helps clients pick a direction and supports steady steps toward that destination.
Many people come for help with panic attacks, social anxiety, codependency, or coping with big life changes. Esther offers services in English and Mandarin from her practice in Virginia. She has decades of clinical experience and aims to make therapy a practical part of daily life for people trying to manage fear, phobias, or ongoing stress.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. Online sessions use that same approach by letting the therapist follow the client’s concerns and help set personal goals. It is useful for people who need a supportive space to talk through fears, relationships, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect. In online sessions this means identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying new ways of thinking, and practicing behavior changes between meetings to reduce panic, phobias, and anxiety symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for strong emotions and intense reactions. It includes techniques for managing distress, improving communication, and building emotional balance, which can be practiced during and between online sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Esther will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. The plan can shift over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for short check-ins, tracking progress, or getting brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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