About Helen
Dr. Helen Green-Esterly is a licensed professional counselor clinical (LPCC) practicing in Ohio with 12 years of experience. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress and anxiety, grief and loss, and problems tied to trauma.
Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping worried people find manageable steps forward. Dr. Green-Esterly creates space for people to talk about what matters most without judgment.
She listens for patterns that keep someone stuck and works with them to try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and centered on small changes that add up over time. Her work covers a broad range of concerns including depression, addictions, sleep and eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. She also supports people facing obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, phobias, and the impacts of trauma.
When issues overlap, she helps prioritize what to address first so progress feels possible. People who have experienced loss or long-term caregiving can turn to her for guidance through grief and hospice-related decisions. She also brings experience with communication problems, compassion fatigue, and life-purpose questions that often come up during major changes.
Dr. Green-Esterly offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She guides each person through simple goal-setting and practical strategies that fit their daily life.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone with a schedule that works for them.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques here focus on practical tools people can use between sessions. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try different, more balanced thoughts to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This approach is useful for worries, panic, and low self-esteem. Another method emphasizes building small behavioral changes - testing new habits, sleep routines, or activity plans - to break patterns that keep problems going. That kind of work helps with depression, phobias, and sleep or eating issues.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. Plans are adjusted based on what works in real time, and progress is measured in practical steps rather than labels.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations for fuller interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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