Esther Bold
Compassionate counselor with practical tools
LPC Alaska
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Esther
Esther Bold is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience based in Alaska. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
Esther aims to make therapy feel straightforward and doable for busy caregivers and adults facing big life changes. Esther uses common-sense, evidence-informed methods to help people spot patterns that cause pain and build practical ways to cope.
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. She listens for the life events and family patterns that shape how someone thinks, feels, and reacts, then works with them to try new responses.
Many clients come with concerns such as parenting strain, career stress, anger, low self-esteem, or grief over separation and loss. Esther also supports people dealing with chronic illness, addictions, first responder stress, and codependency.
She helps people set clear, realistic goals and take steady steps toward change. Her style blends relational work with tools for emotion regulation and thought management.
That can mean addressing attachment wounds, practicing new communication skills, or using behavior-focused techniques to break unhelpful cycles. Esther explains tools plainly and focuses on what will work in everyday life.
People who are looking for steady guidance and practical exercises often find this approach useful. Her practice is geared to adults living in Alaska who prefer a mix of talk, skill-building, and problem-solving.
How Esther’s Approaches Work Online
Esther draws on the Gottman Method to help people improve communication and reduce conflict without blaming each other. That approach emphasizes practical exercises and clearer ways to speak and listen, which can be practiced during sessions and at home.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people understand why they react a certain way and learn new, more supported ways of relating. Additionally, her use of Client-Centered Therapy keeps sessions focused on the person’s own goals, with the therapist following the client’s pace and perspective.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Esther will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy with Esther can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and practicing communication skills, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep work moving week to week.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed in
Oklahoma, Alaska
Languages
English