About Esther
Esther Dubique is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who focuses on practical, grounded therapy. She uses clear, compassionate care to help people manage anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and the fallout from trauma. Esther aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable for busy parents and adults.
She works from several evidence-informed approaches, choosing tools that fit each person's needs. Sessions often include straightforward skills for stress and mood, and time to talk through painful experiences like grief or shame.
Background and approach
Esther also pays attention to attachment and how early relationships shape current patterns. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns. People come for help with parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, addiction, or career-related pressure.
She also supports those navigating adoption or foster care issues, fertility and end-of-life concerns, and the aftereffects of disasters or first-responder stress. Esther brings seven years of clinical experience to the work. She aims to make sessions practical - teaching coping strategies, improving communication, and helping people build steadier routines.
Her style is direct but warm, focused on real-life improvements rather than jargon. Therapy is offered in English and delivered online through multiple formats. Esther asks new clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that suit their rhythms.
She notes her Virginia license as LCSW on record.
Therapeutic options and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck after big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and small experiments. It often helps with mood, worry, and stress by teaching skills people can use between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current connections and communication, helping people improve closeness and reduce recurring conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist discusses goals and preferences and then tailors a mix of these approaches to each person's situation. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to try and adjust them over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone calls can fit a quick check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for shorter exchanges or between-session support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or treatment schedules while still focusing on meaningful change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English