Katie Estelle , LMSW

Katie Estelle is a licensed social worker who helps people navigate relationship struggles, parenting questions, and big life changes. She practices from Michigan and works with individuals and couples on issues like intimacy, trauma, and self-esteem. Katie keeps language direct and practical so conversations stay clear and useful.

Katie uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and build willingness for change. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Somatic techniques help when emotions show up strongly in the body.

Clients often come for help after loss, during fertility or pregnancy transitions, or when attachment and family patterns feel stuck. Katie also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, compassion fatigue, and relationship patterns such as codependency and commitment concerns. She is familiar with adoption and foster care issues and conversations around kink and alternative sex culture.

Katie trained as a Licensed Master Social Worker, LMSW, and brings three years of focused clinical practice to her private work. Her style is respectful and adaptable: she listens first, then plans next steps together. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at small, doable changes.

People who prefer a calm, collaborative guide may find her approach helpful. Katie aims to meet clients where they are and help them build more satisfying daily life patterns. She accepts international clients and offers several online formats for sessions.

How Katie’s Approaches Work in Online Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings get in the way. It is useful for life changes, relationship decisions, and coping with difficult emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting thought patterns that lead to unhelpful actions and trying different behaviors to test new results; it can help with self-esteem, anxiety, and relationship patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on the feelings under relationship struggles and aims to build clearer emotional communication and stronger attachment bonds.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Katie treats therapy as a collaboration: she listens to your goals and preferences, explains options, and adjusts the plan based on what works. Together you decide whether to lean more on values work, behavior experiments, emotion-focused tasks, or a mix of techniques.

Online formats offer practical advantages for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face from different places, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum while trying new skills and habits.