About Katie
Katie Estelle is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) based in Michigan. She focuses on helping people cope with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, and life transitions. Katie aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk through immediate problems and plan next steps.
With three years of direct clinical experience, Katie brings a practical style to sessions. She combines approaches that address thoughts, emotions, and bodily responses.
How Katie works
Sessions often include gentle exploration of painful memories, clearer communication skills, and exercises to reduce overwhelm. She works with people navigating adoption and foster care issues, attachment questions, fertility and family-of-origin struggles. Katie also addresses concerns related to caregiving strain, compassion fatigue, codependency, and separation or divorce.
Intimacy, kink and alternative sex culture are part of her focus areas as well. Katie uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and stay connected to values. Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas inform work on closeness and trust.
Somatic methods and Motivational Interviewing add options when emotions feel stuck or change is hard. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Katie helps people set small, achievable goals and practices between sessions.
She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Katie lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Katie works with
The areas below are the ones Katie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How Katie's approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for life transitions, relationship choices, and coping with loss. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, low mood, and self-esteem. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on emotional bonds and patterns in close relationships and can support work on intimacy and trust.Katie treats the choice of method as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust over time based on what helps. The aim is to find a small set of tools that fit the client's life and produce steady progress.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that helps. Phone sessions can fit shorter breaks or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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