Katie Estrella, LCSW

Katie Estrella is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with five years of clinical experience. She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, and grief. Katie aims to make beginning therapy feel achievable and supports people through that first step.

She focuses on building a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship. Katie creates space for people to say what they really think and feel. She believes that a steady, respectful therapeutic relationship can be healing on its own.

In sessions she uses client-centered listening alongside approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas. That means practical skill-building mixes with attention to how early connections shape current struggles. Conversations often move between identifying unhelpful thought patterns and practicing new ways of relating to others.

Katie also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship concerns and mindfulness practices for managing stress and anxiety. She keeps work straightforward and focused on everyday life. People leave with concrete tools they can use between sessions.

She has spent her career supporting a wide range of concerns, including abandonment and attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, eating and body-image concerns, communication and commitment issues, dissociation, and separation or divorce. Katie aims to help people feel more steady, able to make clearer choices, and better equipped to move forward.

How Katie's Approaches Work in Online Sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client’s lead. It helps people feel heard and begin to understand what they want to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship experiences influence current behavior and help people rebuild safer ways of connecting.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Katie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That means trying practical tools, checking how they feel, and adjusting the plan together over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as taking a meeting break or avoiding travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when needed or let someone choose a session style that reduces screen time. Confirm the specific session formats offered before booking so you know exactly how sessions will be scheduled and delivered.