About Katherine
Katherine Estrada is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so clients can use new skills day to day. Katherine focuses on helping people rebuild self-esteem, face isolation, and work through trauma and abuse concerns.
She blends several evidence-informed approaches to match each person’s needs. Sessions focus on learning tools for emotion regulation, improving communication, and reducing avoidance patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Katherine pays close attention to attachment patterns and how past relationships shape current reactions. Clients can expect a calm, listening-first style that centers the person’s goals. Katherine draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts, and on dialectical skills to manage intense emotions.
She also uses acceptance and commitment methods to clarify values and take meaningful action. Her work includes addressing issues such as abandonment, codependency, body image, chronic illness and pain, control struggles, guilt and shame, and loneliness. Katherine emphasizes concrete strategies so people can practice between sessions and track progress.
Katherine holds a New York licensed mental health counselor credential and has five years of clinical experience. She provides services in English and works with adults seeking support for emotional and relational concerns. The tone in her work is compassionate and practical, aimed at helping people get unstuck and move toward clearer purpose.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship experiences shape current connections and helps people practice new, healthier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Katherine will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as work in sessions uncovers what is most helpful and realistic for day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and emotion-focused exercises. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and easier fits for busy days. These formats help people access regular support without rearranging large parts of their schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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