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Katie Estelle, LMSW

Based in Michigan Online sessions

Support for relationship and parenting transitions

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Years in practice
3
Credentials
LMSW
Licensed in
Michigan
Languages
English
Focus
Relationship issues
Focus
Family conflicts
Focus
Intimacy-related issues
About

About Katie

Katie Estelle is a licensed social worker who focuses on practical support for people facing relationship and parenting challenges. She works with individuals and couples navigating changes like pregnancy, loss, separation, and care-related stress. Her approach is down-to-earth and compassionate, aimed at helping clients find manageable steps forward.

Katie brings three years of direct clinical experience in school-based and individual therapy settings. She uses clear, goal-oriented methods to address intimacy struggles, communication problems, and caregiving burnout.

Background and approach

Sessions tend to focus on what feels most urgent to the client and on small actions that make daily life easier. Her work often centers on attachment, adoption and foster care concerns, and family-of-origin patterns that affect current relationships. Katie also supports people dealing with trauma, shame, isolation, and fertility or parenting transitions.

She is familiar with a wide range of relationship and identity issues including kink and alternative sex culture, codependency, and commitment worries. Katie draws from evidence-informed approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and somatic methods. She adapts techniques to a person's temperament and goals rather than using one fixed method.

Katie sees clients in Michigan and offers services that can work around busy schedules. Her communication style is respectful, straightforward, and collaborative, aimed at helping each person build more workable patterns and greater emotional balance.

Focus areas and approaches

What Katie works with

Everything Katie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Katie helps people with.

Approaches Katie lists

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Online support

How Katie's Approaches Work Online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that align with them. It helps with life transitions, parenting decisions, and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers strategies to change patterns that cause distress. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and problem-solving relationship hurdles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Katie collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods based on their goals, comfort, and what has helped or not helped in the past. That collaborative process often begins by identifying one or two concrete goals for the upcoming weeks and trying techniques to see what fits.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can fit into busy days for quick reflections or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or school schedules while keeping continuity of care.
Questions

Questions people ask about Katie

What concerns does Katie commonly help with?

She helps people with relationship strain, intimacy issues, parenting transitions, caregiving stress, and trauma-related worries. Other concerns include fertility stress, family-of-origin patterns, and isolation.

What is Katie's general therapy style?

Her style is practical and collaborative, using short-term goals and tangible steps. Conversations are tailored to each person's needs and rhythms.

What is her professional background?

Katie has three years of clinical experience in school-based and individual therapy work and maintains a independent practice in Michigan.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She holds an LMSW, which stands for Licensed Master Social Worker, and practices in Michigan.

Can someone work with her from another country?

Sessions are offered to international clients in English, allowing people outside the U.S. to connect when licensing and scheduling permit.

Which session formats are available?

Therapy can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the client's needs.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with Katie?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

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