Self-esteem therapists

Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, RPT

Kelly Bristol is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist in St. Charles, Missouri. She works with children, preteens, teens and adults dealing with anxiety, ADHD, depression, grief, OCD, stress and family concerns. A central part of her work is helping clients understand overwhelming emotions and learn to meet them with compassion instead of self-criticism. She adapts her methods to each person, using play therapy and art therapy with younger clients alongside CBT and mindfulness-based approaches. Her style rests on a positive therapeutic relationship built on respect and empathy, and she believes therapy is for everyone. Sessions are available in person in St. Charles and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CADC, CIP

Rebecca Mowen is a licensed clinical social worker, certified alcohol and drug counselor and certified intervention professional in Clayton, Missouri, with 26 years in practice and licenses in Missouri and Illinois. She works with teens, adults, older adults, couples and families on addiction and substance use, life transitions, anxiety, depression, grief, relationships and bipolar disorder. Her approach is holistic and systemic, looking at the larger systems at home, at work and in the community that shape each relationship. She encourages clients to care for themselves first so they can build healthier connections, using CBT, family systems, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, positive psychology and coaching. She offers sessions in person in Clayton and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LMSW

Rashida Dinehart is a licensed master social worker and grief educator in Kirkwood, Missouri, early in her career with one year in practice. She sees grief as broader than death, covering every kind of loss, including the ones people feel they are not allowed to mourn. She helps clients with grief, anxiety, depression, relationships, self-esteem, family concerns and postpartum and perinatal struggles. Rather than trying to fix anyone, she sits alongside clients as they sort through complicated feelings and make meaning of their story, using CBT, family systems, mindfulness, coaching and a strength-based approach. She welcomes humor, including the dark kind, in sessions. She offers sessions in person in Kirkwood and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC, CEDS

Katie Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor and certified eating disorder specialist in St. Louis, with 19 years in practice and licenses in Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin. She treats eating disorders, complex trauma and PTSD, attachment issues, mood disorders, self-injury, addiction and family conflict, and has a particular interest in eating disorders in blended families. She works with preteens, teens, adults, couples and families. Her style is direct and honest, paired with compassion, and her methods include EMDR, CBT, DBT, IFS, emotionally focused therapy, the Gottman Method and expressive arts. She aims to help clients loosen old protective patterns and move toward a more balanced life. Sessions are in person in St. Louis and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC, CCMHC, BC-TMH

Peter Bogart is a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor in Kirkwood, in the St. Louis area, with 18 years in practice. He works with children, teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, depression, ADHD, self-esteem and family conflict. He also sees clients dealing with bipolar disorder, substance use alongside mental health concerns, autism and learning differences, and adoption or infertility. His approach is goal-oriented and collaborative, drawing on CBT, ACT, exposure and response prevention, family systems, solution-focused and psychodynamic methods to build skills, emotional insight and regulation. He emphasizes steady small gains. He offers sessions in person in Kirkwood and online, with a free consultation.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Amy Johnson Chong is a licensed clinical social worker in Winter Park, Florida, with 26 years in practice. She works with teens, adults, families and groups facing ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, life transitions, self-esteem and LGBTQ+ concerns. Over her career she has listened to the stories of both children and adults, and she holds a firm belief in people's natural capacity to move toward hope. Her approach combines attachment-based, emotionally focused and trauma-focused work with IFS, CBT, mindfulness, play therapy and positive psychology, adapted to each client's own story. She offers sessions in person in Winter Park and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-FL, LCSW-CT, LCSW-TX

Dolly Skricka is a licensed clinical social worker who provides online therapy to adults in Florida, Connecticut and Texas from Orlando. She works with people who feel mentally stuck, caught in overthinking, intrusive thoughts, avoidance, perfectionism or trouble following through, and treats anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, trauma, burnout, grief and life transitions. Her background includes years in clinical and counseling settings and work alongside first responders. Her approach is practical and collaborative, using CBT, exposure and response prevention, DBT, schema-informed work, mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help clients build strategies that hold up in everyday life and reduce the grip of intrusive thoughts. All sessions are online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Susan Dixon is a licensed clinical social worker in Kissimmee, Florida, who works with children from about age three to fifteen. She helps kids who are struggling to adjust to something new or who are dealing with loss, anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, selective mutism, bullying or behavior problems. She is certified in early childhood interventions, and since play is the natural language of many children, play therapy is central to her work, along with art therapy, expressive arts, CBT, DBT and family systems. Parents are an important part of the process, and she focuses on helping parent and child understand each other better. She sees clients in person in Kissimmee and online.

Counselor, MA, LMHC, FLCS

Garrett Leslie is a licensed mental health counselor and Florida board-approved clinical supervisor in Oviedo, part of the Tree of Life team. He sees children, teens, adults, couples and families, with a focus on marriage and relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief, and his listing also includes ADHD, OCD, addiction and LGBTQ+ concerns. His style is relational, combining warmth and acceptance with clinical clarity, and he believes a therapist can only guide others as far as he has traveled himself. His methods include EMDR, emotionally focused therapy, ACT, CBT, DBT, Gestalt and family systems. He offers sessions in person in Oviedo and online.