Katie Estelle, LMSW

Katie Estelle is a licensed social worker who helps people navigate relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She works directly with individuals and couples on intimacy concerns, attachment questions, and the stress that comes from caregiving and fertility issues.

Katie uses clear, practical tools to address trauma, low self-esteem, and family-of-origin problems. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to support values-based choices and repair in close relationships.

Her clinical work includes support for those affected by adoption and foster care, attachment wounds, and complex sexual identities such as kink and BDSM. She also assists people facing divorce, separation, domestic violence survivors, and those coping with guilt, shame, or isolation.

Katie completed a Master of Social Work and holds the Licensed Master Social Worker credential, LMSW. She has three years of experience providing school-based and individual therapy, and she also maintains a private practice in Michigan.

In sessions she blends talk-based techniques with somatic awareness and internal parts work. Her style is respectful and direct, aiming to empower clients to make changes that fit their lives. She accepts clients from outside the United States and offers services in English.

People reach out to Katie when they want practical strategies for coping, clearer communication in relationships, or steady support through major life changes.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Katie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors; CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and problem-solving in relationships. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on values and committed action to move forward even when difficult feelings are present. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are used when rebuilding connection and addressing attachment patterns in close relationships.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Katie will talk with a client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt techniques over time. Together they track what helps and change the plan if needed.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work through relational issues face to face. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing brief support between sessions or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches above to address relationships, trauma, and life changes.