Katie Estrella, LCSW

Katie Estrella is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in North Carolina with five years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and grief. She frames therapy as practical work on thoughts, feelings, and everyday habits. Katie speaks English and practices in North Carolina.

She focuses on clear steps people can try between sessions. Katie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections affect current relationships. Client-centered techniques guide how she listens and responds in sessions.

Sessions are straightforward and conversational. Katie encourages people to name specific goals and to notice patterns that get in the way of those goals. She offers coping strategies for panic, overwhelm, grief, and ongoing stress. Practical exercises and simple experiments are common parts of the work.

Katie addresses a wide range of concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, blended family stress, body image, caregiver strain, chronic pain and illness, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with dissociation, divorce or separation, eating and food-related issues, and reactions to disasters.

Her approach is collaborative and action oriented. People who want structured, skills-based work that focuses on thinking patterns and relationship dynamics may find this approach helpful. The first step is to identify a small, realistic change to try and build from there.

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