01 — Adoption & foster care
Adoption, attachment & foster-care-connected stories
For adoptees, adoptive families, foster-care-connected children and teens, and parents working through belonging, separation, grief, and repair across ages.
When it’s too heavy to carry on your own…
EBA Counseling offers steady, body-aware care for people and families carrying more than they can keep holding alone.
Adv. Somatic Practitioner
Brainspotting Certified
EMDR Trained
LAC · IPC-A
This work is for the families and people inside hard stories.
If you are not sure whether your situation is "big enough" for counseling, it probably is. Reaching out is the first step, not the last one.
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Parents seeking help for a child or teen
For families noticing big feelings, anxiety, school refusal, behavior shifts, grief, or the long tail of something difficult. The work moves at your child's pace, not on a deadline.
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Adoptive, foster, and kinship families
Care for adoptees, adoptive parents, foster-care-connected children, and the relational complexity of belonging, separation, and repair across ages.
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Helpers, caregivers, and professionals
Help for the Helper: counselors, caseworkers, educators, ministry leaders, healthcare workers, and people who hold other people's pain for a living.
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Adults working through their own story
Trauma counseling, attachment work, somatic practice, and grief support for adults who keep noticing the same patterns and want a slower, steadier way through.
The hard thing may be over. Your body, your child, your relationships — they may still be responding. The work here is to make enough room for that, and move carefully from there.
A. Care focus
Specific care for specific stories.
The practice is built around the kinds of things that don't resolve through advice — attachment wounds, trauma the body still tracks, grief without a clean timeline, and the slow work of repair.
02 — Trauma & the nervous system
Body-aware work for what the body is still tracking
For alarm, shutdown, numbness, reactivity, and stuck patterns that do not resolve by thinking harder. Slow, body-aware processing at a pace the client sets.
03 — Grief & loss
Grief that does not move on command
Death, ambiguous loss, family change, and grief that arrives sideways. The timeline is not rushed.
04 — Children, teens & family work
Developmentally aware care for younger clients
Anxiety, behavior shifts, trauma responses, school struggles, and hard transitions — held alongside parents.
05 — Help for the Helper
Care for the people who carry other people's pain
Counselors, caseworkers, educators, ministry leaders, medical professionals. Space for compassion fatigue and quiet burnout.
06 — Brain & body based support
Nervous system guided support
Nervous system guided support for individuals feeling stuck between yesterday and tomorrow. EBA Counseling is a private practice in East Texas for individuals seeking brain and body based support for processing trauma, life transitions, grief and loss, adoption and foster care, attachment wounds, anxiety, depression, and chronic dysregulation.
B. Counselor
A small practice and care that stays in the room with you.
"My work is paced around the person in front of me, not a checklist."
Ester Belshe, M.S., LAC, IPC-A, is the counselor behind EBA Counseling. She works with children, adolescents, teens, adults, and families through in-person counseling on Summerhill Road, with limited online sessions where clinically appropriate.
Her clinical focus is adoption, attachment, foster care, grief and loss, advanced somatic practice, Brainspotting-certified care, EMDR-trained counseling, and Help for the Helper. The work is steady, relational, and unhurried — and the first call is meant to feel that way too.
More about Ester & the practice ->- Education
- M.S., Counseling
- License
- LAC · IPC-A
- Somatic
- Advanced Practitioner
- Trauma
- Brainspotting · EMDR
C. Approach
Paced work, not forced progress.
Healing is not a productivity goal. The work here begins with fit, safety, and the parts of a story that need to be noticed before anything else.
Principle one
Safety and pacing first.
Sessions begin with readiness, fit, and enough steadiness to keep going. We do not chase intensity for its own sake.
Principle two
The body is part of the story.
Somatic practice means listening to cues, protective responses, and patterns the body still carries — not just talking around them.
Principle three
Repair is relational.
Attachment, family, and identity work happens together, at whatever pace the relationship can hold. Repair is slow, but it is real.
E. Begin
Request an appointment.
A short, no-pressure request. Share only the basics, and Ester can follow up personally about fit and next steps.
- You do not have to know what to say yet.
- A name and a callback time is enough to start.
- This opens a prefilled email to Ester directly.
- For privacy, please keep clinical detail out of the message.
Your email app should open next.
Review the message before sending it to Ester. If the email window does not open, call 903.212.7082 or email ester@ebacounseling.com.
F. Getting started
A first contact should not require your whole story.
Reaching out is meant to feel light. You can share as little as a name and a callback time, and we go from there.
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Reach out
Use the consultation form, call, or email. Whatever is easiest. We go from there.
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A short call
Ester returns the message personally — a brief, no-cost call to talk about fit and what you're looking for.
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Begin at your pace
First sessions focus on orientation, safety, and what feels clinically appropriate for the person in front of Ester.
G. Office
A quiet room on Summerhill Road.
4612 Summerhill Road
Texarkana, Texas 75503
In-person counseling is the default. Limited online sessions may be available where clinically appropriate, for established clients in Texas. EBA Counseling serves families across East Texas — including Texarkana, Marshall, Mount Pleasant, Atlanta, Pittsburg, Tyler, and Longview.
Texarkana
Marshall
Mount Pleasant
Atlanta
Pittsburg
Tyler
Longview
Northeast TX
D. Voices
What people are saying.
This section is styled for approved client, parent, and colleague reflections once Ester chooses the exact language she is comfortable publishing.
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H. Contact
Begin with a call or an email.
You do not have to know what to say. "I'm looking for a counselor for myself / my child / my family" is enough.
For privacy, please avoid sending sensitive clinical details by email. EBA Counseling is not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. If you or someone you love is experiencing a mental health crisis, call or text 988.