About Esther
Esther Dubique is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Virginia who uses somatic awareness alongside talk-based work. She focuses on the whole person, helping people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body and the mind. Sessions are practical and grounded, aimed at reducing overwhelm and restoring balance in daily life.
She helps people cope with depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles. Esther also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, and addiction-related challenges.
Background and approach
Work often includes rebuilding self-esteem and setting boundaries where needed. Esther blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with attachment-focused ideas to help people clarify values and improve connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to address unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping skills.
The practice is client-centered, so sessions move at the person’s pace and focus on what matters most to them. Her experience includes assisting people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, fertility and adoption questions, and end-of-life concerns. She also works with those affected by first responder stress, disasters, and workplace pressures.
Esther draws on seven years of clinical practice to tailor approaches to each situation. Esther communicates in English and provides care via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She holds a Virginia LCSW license, VA LCSW 0904009587, and structures services through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How approaches like somatic work and ACT translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and use simple body-based practices to reduce tension. Online sessions can include guided awareness of breathing, posture, and physical sensations to help clients feel more present and grounded.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions toward them while accepting difficult feelings. In an online session this looks like identifying meaningful goals, trying value-driven steps, and checking what gets in the way with practical exercises and homework.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Esther will work with each person to decide which methods make sense based on their goals, preferences, and what shows up in session. Plans can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or medical concerns. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, revisit short check-ins between meetings, and practice skills in real time where challenges arise.
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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