About Katie
Katie Estrella is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina. She brings five years of professional experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use when they feel overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. Katie aims to make the first step feel manageable.
She keeps conversations direct and clear. She creates space for people to talk about worry, grief, trauma, or low mood without judgement. In sessions she uses approaches that help people notice patterns in their thinking and relationships.
Background and approach
That can mean learning small, doable skills to manage anxious moments. It can also mean tracing old attachment patterns and seeing how they show up now. Katie emphasizes a warm, client-centered style.
She believes a trusting therapeutic relationship matters. From that starting point she and the client decide what practical strategies to try and how to measure progress. She also draws on mindfulness practices to help with grounding and managing stress in the moment.
For couples or relationship concerns she incorporates methods from the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. Katie works with a broad range of concerns such as abandonment, body image, chronic illness, caregiver stress, codependency, dissociation, and eating-related issues. People who want straightforward guidance and calm, steady support tend to find her approach useful.
How Katie’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with step-by-step skills for anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple exercises to reduce stress and bring attention back to the present moment, which can be helpful during high-anxiety moments.Katie approaches treatment as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest approaches to try. Together they monitor what helps and make changes as needed so the approach fits the person, not the other way around.
Using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls let people practice communication skills while seeing each other. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can work when video is not practical. Live chat or text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy part of an everyday routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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