About Katherine
Katherine Estrada is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people cope with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and relationship struggles. She offers calm, direct support and practical tools to manage overwhelming feelings. Katherine writes plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person.
She uses a mix of approaches to meet real-life needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers emotion regulation and coping skills for intense feelings.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take steps toward them. Katherine aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful. She focuses on improving communication, reducing shame, and easing isolation.
Much of the work looks like problem-solving, skill practice, and making space to talk about painful experiences. Her background includes five years of clinical work as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York. That experience includes supporting people through depression, trauma and abuse, and chronic illness and pain.
She pays attention to attachment and patterns that come from early relationships. This helps when addressing abandonment, codependency, or avoidant personality traits. Katherine also helps people explore life purpose, forgiveness, and repairing communication problems.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. The therapy subscription can be canceled at any time and scheduling is arranged after a short matching process.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Many sessions use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT is practical and often includes homework to practice between sessions.Dialectical Behavior Therapy is another approach she uses to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. DBT skills can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when impulsivity is a concern.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Changes are tracked and the plan is adjusted based on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when a written check-in feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions and to practice skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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