About Estela
Estela Rodriguez Jebril helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or mood. She also supports people facing parenting challenges, career questions, trauma and intimacy-related issues, and life transitions. Estela is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW with 15 years of clinical experience and speaks English and Spanish.
Her style is direct and practical. Sessions focus on clear goals and hands-on steps people can try between meetings.
How Estela works
She blends talk therapy with approaches that look at thoughts, emotions, and relationship patterns to ease symptoms and improve daily functioning. Estela trained at California State University, Long Beach, earning a Master of Social Work. Early in her career she provided in-home family therapy and worked with school-aged youth at risk, helping with communication, problem solving, and trauma recovery.
Since 2016 she has practiced independently, offering online therapy and coaching. In sessions she draws on Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Existential ideas, and the Gottman Method to address relationship and emotional concerns. She uses techniques from these approaches in straightforward ways.
Estela tailors her methods to each person’s needs and goals rather than applying a single formula. People meet with her to work on specific problems, build coping skills, and plan next steps. She combines short-term strategies with deeper conversations about meaning, values, and connection.
Estela aims to create a working partnership so people feel empowered to move forward.
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What Estela works with
The areas below are the ones Estela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online and in session
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, listening relationship where the person’s goals guide the work and the therapist follows their lead. This approach helps people clarify what matters to them and build motivation for change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings and offers specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and many everyday stressors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on relationship patterns and emotional responses. It can help people improve communication, reduce conflict, and feel more connected in important relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and may combine elements from different approaches to create a tailored plan.
Online therapy with Estela uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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