Katie Estrella, LCSW

North Carolina · 5 years in practice

Katie Estrella is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina.

License and registration

LCSW, North Carolina: C016525 · expires November 2027
NPI: 1790540623 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 5
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Katie

Katie Estrella is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina. She brings five years of professional experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, and grief. Katie aims to make the first step feel achievable and offers steady support along the way.

Her approach centers on building a trusting relationship. Katie creates a calm space for people to talk through their thoughts and feelings without judgment.

Background and approach

She believes that feeling heard and understood is a key part of making change. Katie draws on a mix of practical techniques and listening-based work. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to tackle unhelpful thinking and client-centered skills to follow the person’s lead.

Mindfulness tools are offered to manage strong emotions in the moment. For relationship concerns she uses parts of the Gottman Method to help people address communication and commitment questions. Attachment-based ideas guide work around abandonment and connection issues, helping people understand patterns that repeat across relationships.

She also supports people facing caregiving stress, chronic pain or illness, body image and eating concerns, codependency, and life transitions like divorce or separation. Katie works with dissociation and trauma-related symptoms with care and patience. Katie uses plain language and short-term goals so progress is measurable.

She helps clients pick concrete steps they can try between sessions and adjusts the plan as needs change. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person’s pace and priorities.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Katie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Depression
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
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family problems
Fertility issues
Forgiveness
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
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Katie names

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Katie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT breaks problems into small steps and offers practical exercises to try between sessions.

She also works from an attachment-based perspective to explore how early connection patterns affect current relationships. This helps when issues like abandonment, trust, and repeated relationship patterns come up.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Katie will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan together so the work fits the person’s needs and pace.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity when travel or work schedules change.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Katie commonly address?

Katie helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and grief. She also focuses on attachment problems, abandonment, caregiving stress, body image, chronic illness, codependency, and related concerns.

How does she approach therapy sessions?

Sessions combine listening with hands-on techniques. Katie uses client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, attachment ideas, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship work.

What is her professional background?

She holds a license as a clinical social worker and has five years of professional experience working with the listed concerns. Her work emphasizes building a trusting therapeutic relationship.

Where is Katie located and licensed?

Katie is licensed in North Carolina as an LCSW and practices with a focus on clients in that state.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How are sessions priced?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

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