About Katherine
Katherine Estrada is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical ways to reduce shame, build self-esteem, and ease isolation so daily life feels more manageable. She uses a mix of body-aware and talk-based methods, including somatic work to notice how emotions live in the body.
Katherine blends that with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients name thoughts and try small changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are also shaped by attachment-based ideas and a client-centered stance that respects each person’s pace. Katherine aims to make space for hard memories and current struggles. She helps people process trauma, work through attachment or abandonment wounds, and manage chronic pain or health-related stress.
She also addresses communication problems, control issues, codependency, and feelings tied to body image or guilt. Her work is straightforward and collaborative. Together with clients she develops concrete tools for impulse control, handling relationship friction, and reducing loneliness.
The focus stays on what someone wants to change and what feels doable in their life. Based in New York, Katherine holds the Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential - LMHC. She has five years of clinical experience and offers therapy in English.
Online sessions are available in several formats to match different schedules and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic work pays attention to where sensations and tension show up in the body. Online sessions can still use guided body awareness, breath work, and slow movement cues to help people notice how emotions feel physically and find ways to calm the body.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking manageable steps toward them. In virtual sessions this looks like naming what matters, noticing difficult thoughts, and practicing small actions that match personal goals.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current needs and patterns. Over video or phone calls, a therapist helps identify attachment-style reactions and supports safer ways of relating in present-day connections.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, comfort level, and circumstances. That plan can change over time as needs shift.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video and phone appointments allow a regular meeting without travel, while live chat and text let people check in between sessions or use shorter-touch supports. These options make it easier to keep therapeutic momentum while juggling life commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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