Estela Rodriguez Jebril, LCSW
Calm, practical therapy with body awareness
About Estela
Estela Rodriguez Jebril is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, and trauma. She works with concerns such as addiction, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, career stress, mood fluctuations, and intimacy-related problems. Estela is bilingual in English and Spanish and works from California.
Estela brings 15 years of experience in mental health and coaching. She earned a Master in Social Work from California State University of Long Beach and holds a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, CA LCSW 75146.
Background and approach
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. Her style is practical and person-focused. Sessions aim to set clear goals and use hands-on methods to address pressing problems.
She combines body-aware work with conversational therapy to help people reconnect with sensations and emotions while learning new coping skills. Estela uses a mix of approaches including somatic practices to attend to physical sensations, client-centered listening to follow each person’s priorities, and cognitive behavioral techniques for shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on emotionally-focused and existential ideas when relationships, meaning, or attachment are central topics. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances emotion, thought, and body awareness. Estela offers coaching-style support when clients want concrete steps for change.
She provides services in English and Spanish to people located in California.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing bodily sensations and how they relate to emotions and behavior; online sessions can use guided body awareness, breathing, and movement prompts to help people feel more settled and present. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s priorities and pace, with the therapist listening deeply and following what matters most in each session. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with practical skills for mood and behavior change, often using worksheets or short exercises that transfer well to video or chat. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day life. Clients and therapist can try different techniques and adjust the plan as they learn what helps most. Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls enable face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions work when video is not possible, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and practice new skills regularly.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish