About Esther
Esther Olajide is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California with six years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or stuck in motivation and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Esther aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and acknowledges how brave it can be to begin. She creates a calm, open space where clients can say what they think and feel without judgment.
Conversations center on clear goals like reducing anxiety, building confidence, or sorting through career uncertainty. Sessions are practical and straightforward, with an emphasis on small changes that add up over time.
Esther gives attention to communication problems and questions about life purpose. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns in how they talk to themselves and others.
From there she works with them to try new responses and ways of thinking that feel more useful. Work on self-love and confidence is framed as a series of achievable steps.
She breaks larger goals into simple tasks so progress is easier to see. This makes it easier to bring these changes into everyday life.
Esther offers sessions in English and uses formats that fit a busy schedule. She encourages anyone who is ready to take a step toward feeling better to complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Esther uses evidence-based techniques focused on practical change. One common approach she relies on helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns, then practice new ways of thinking that reduce anxiety and increase confidence. This method is useful for stress, low self-esteem, and persistent worry.Another approach emphasizes behavioral steps - trying small, manageable actions to build motivation and improve communication. These experiments help clients see what works in real life and create forward momentum in careers and personal goals.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Esther will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, reflection between sessions, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English