Katie Estelle, LMSW
Somatic-informed therapist focusing on relationships and parenting
About Katie
Katie Estelle is a licensed master social worker who helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps and steady conversation to help people feel less stuck. Katie frames the work around what each person needs right now, and she keeps things clear and direct.
Katie offers somatic-informed work alongside talk-based methods. She brings attention to bodily experience while also using strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions often include noticing physical responses, naming patterns, and practicing small, doable changes between meetings. Her background includes three years of clinical work providing school-based and individual therapy and broader social work experience. She practices in Michigan and runs a independent practice called Eunoia Therapy Collective.
Katie describes her approach as respectful and compassionate, and she adapts pace and focus to each person's situation. People come to Katie for many concerns, including trauma and abuse, intimacy and relationship issues, parenting and adoption-related stress, caregiver burnout, and struggles with guilt or isolation. She also supports those coping with fertility challenges, separation, and identity-related sexual or kink concerns.
Therapy is collaborative and grounded in real life. Katie aims to help people build more satisfying relationships, clearer boundaries, and calmer daily routines. Her style is straightforward, warm, and focused on what will help next.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Katie uses Somatic Therapy to help people notice bodily signals and how they relate to emotions and relationships. This can be useful for trauma, stress, and moments when feelings are held in the body rather than easily put into words.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that match those values. ACT can help with decision points, life transitions, and when worry or avoidance gets in the way.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolbox for identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying out different behaviors. CBT techniques are often paired with somatic noticing to make change feel more concrete and manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Katie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, and she will adjust methods to fit those needs in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, keep continuity during transitions, and try different formats to see what feels most helpful. The combination of somatic and evidence-informed methods can be practiced in these formats to support steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English