About Estela
Estela Valera helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. She speaks English and Spanish and brings eight years of experience as an LPC - licensed professional counselor. Her tone is warm and straightforward, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Estela offers short-term coaching and longer therapy work for issues like relationships, self-esteem, career strain, grief, and burnout. She also supports people coping with trauma, emotional abuse, ADHD, and the hard patterns that repeat across generations.
How Estela works
She explains ideas clearly and checks in often so clients know what to expect. In sessions she adapts her style to each person. Estela blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to match the client’s goals.
That means conversations focus on your concerns, connect thoughts to feelings and actions, and build motivation for change. She draws on real-world tools such as thought records, problem-solving steps, and goal-setting exercises. Sessions may include skills practice, exploring past patterns, and planning next steps between meetings.
Estela balances support with practical action. People who come to Estela often want clearer communication, fewer mood swings, better boundaries, or help managing caregiver or parenting stress. She works with people across adult life stages and tailors each plan to the person’s current situation and values.
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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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Estela blends Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing into online sessions that focus on your goals. Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on what matters to the client, offering empathic listening and support while you decide the direction of work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses simple tools like thought records and behavior experiments to reduce anxiety or depression. Motivational Interviewing builds motivation for change by exploring ambivalence and strengthening reasons for action.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Estela will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit best, adjust over time, and set clear steps and homework when useful. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to your goals, pace, and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer, interactive therapy and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, goal reminders, and ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping momentum between contacts.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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