Katie Estrella , LCSW

Katie Estrella is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma, and grief. Katie aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and straightforward guidance.

She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they really think and feel. Katie believes a trusting relationship with a therapist is an important part of healing. Sessions are conversational and practical, not filled with jargon.

Katie draws from several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered techniques that prioritize each person’s priorities and pace.

In sessions she works through concrete goals like calming anxiety, improving communication, coping with loss, or managing symptoms after trauma. She offers tools such as simple behavioral experiments, mindfulness exercises, and communication practice. Progress is tracked in small, measurable steps so people can see what works.

Katie is attentive to issues that often come up alongside core concerns, including body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and attachment worries. She frames work as a partnership and helps people build skills they can use outside of sessions.

Approach-focused care available online

Katie blends attachment-based ideas and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions so people can work on relationships and daily thinking patterns. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect current reactions and helps people notice patterns in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety or low mood.

She also uses a client-centered approach that keeps each person’s priorities in view and guides the pacing of work. Choosing the right approach is collaborative - the therapist and client talk about goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. That means approaches can shift as progress is made.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into busy lives. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing each other. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule. Live chat and text are useful for short check-ins, brief skill practice, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health needs.