Esther Priegue
Compassionate, skills-focused therapy for life transitions
LCSW New York
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Esther
Esther Priegue is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 25 years of professional experience who draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients build practical skills and shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She centers a collaborative, strengths-based stance that recognizes clients as the experts on their own lives while offering evidence-informed methods to address concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low mood, and self-esteem. Esther emphasizes small, achievable changes that support longer-term wellbeing.
Her work also includes support for a broad range of life challenges, including grief, relationship and family issues, sleep difficulties, parenting concerns, career transitions, and chronic health considerations like cancer or chronic pain. Additional focus areas include codependency, communication problems, abandonment, and coping with life changes.
Esther offers therapy in English and Spanish and practices from New York as a licensed LCSW (NY LCSW 071793). She welcomes clients who are ready to explore practical strategies and compassionate guidance to move toward clearer goals.
Therapy sessions are structured around client priorities, with an emphasis on collaboration, skills-building, and real-world application of therapeutic tools.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Care
Esther integrates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and trauma-focused methods to help clients identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress. CBT offers structured tools for addressing symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep problems by teaching practical skills and homework-based practice. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing traumatic memories and building coping strategies to reduce the hold of past events on present functioning.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills when emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are priorities, offering concrete techniques for managing intense emotions and improving communication. Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process; the therapist and client review goals, preferences, and progress together and adapt methods to fit the client's needs and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which increase flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions. These options allow for ongoing skill coaching, check-ins, and therapeutic work that can be integrated into daily routines while honoring each person's logistics and preferences.
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Experience
25+ years
Licensed
New York
Languages
English, Spanish