Esther Priegue

Esther Priegue is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low mood, and issues with motivation and self-esteem. Esther also supports those navigating life purpose questions, grief, career concerns, and other major life changes.

Her approach blends practical, skills-based methods with conversational work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused techniques when clients want concrete next steps.

Sessions are collaborative. Esther treats each person as the expert on their own story and looks for existing strengths to build from. She encourages small, manageable changes and checks what is working as therapy progresses.

Esther has worked across a variety of clinical settings over her career. That background informs her care for people dealing with long-term illness, chronic pain, caregiving stress, and end-of-life issues, as well as trauma, domestic violence, and relationship struggles.

She offers services in English and Spanish and practices in New York. Practical matters such as cost vary with location, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

How Esther's approaches translate to online work

CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online sessions can guide straightforward exercises, mood tracking, and behavioral experiments that fit into everyday life. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Those skills can be taught and practiced in session and then reviewed during follow-ups to see how they are working.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Esther treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will help clients decide which techniques suit their goals, whether that means more skill-building, targeted problem solving, or trauma-focused work. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. They can also support continued work during life transitions and help people practice new skills in real-world settings without changing other commitments.