About Estela
Estela Rodriguez Jebril is a bilingual therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and addiction. She also supports concerns like eating and sleeping problems, intimacy issues, ADHD, career questions, and coping with major life changes. Estela provides therapy in both English and Spanish and practices in California as a licensed clinical social worker.
She holds a Master in Social Work from California State University, Long Beach and lists LCSW as her credential.
Background and approach
Estela’s style is direct and practical. She focuses on clear goals and hands-on tools people can use between sessions. Conversations aim to shift unhelpful thoughts and to build better ways of behaving and relating.
Sessions often include skill practice, problem-solving, and attention to emotional experience. Before working independently, Estela spent years doing in-home family therapy and supporting students and caregivers in school settings. That early work involved improving communication, solving problems, and addressing trauma that affected young people and their caregivers.
Since 2016 she has provided online therapy and coaching from a independent practice setting. Her background combines clinical social work and transformational coaching to support change over time. She brings about 15 years of clinical experience to her work.
Estela uses methods that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused approaches, existential discussion, and relationship-focused methods such as the Gottman Method. She matches tools to each person’s needs and goals, and she invites people to shape the pace of change as therapy proceeds.
Online therapy approaches that meet you where you are
Estela commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting each person’s own goals so they feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.She also brings emotionally-focused ideas into relationship work to help partners or individuals notice and shift interaction patterns that cause distress. These approaches are used in simple, down-to-earth ways so people can try new skills between meetings. Choosing the best approach is collaborative; Estela will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and adjust methods as work progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, helpful for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short check-in during a break. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for quick updates, coaching-style guidance, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress even when schedules change.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Estela work with?
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
What is her professional background?
Where is Estela licensed and based?
Which languages are supported in sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
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