Estela Rodriguez Jebril
Practical, bilingual LCSW focused on relationships and coping
LCSW California
- Experience
- 15 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Estela
Estela Rodriguez Jebril is a bilingual licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, addictions, trauma, and parenting struggles.
Background and approach
She offers support for a wide range of concerns including mood difficulties like depression and bipolar symptoms, attention concerns such as ADHD, and intimacy or communication problems. Estela practices in California and provides services in English and Spanish.
Estela brings 15 years of clinical experience to her work, including early in-home family therapy and several years working with at-risk students. She moved into independent practice in 2016 and has provided online therapy and coaching since then.
Her background includes a Master in Social Work from California State University Long Beach and licensure as an LCSW in California. Her approach is practical and centered on the person seeking help.
Sessions focus on clear goals and hands-on tools that people can try between meetings. She draws on Client-Centered principles to create a respectful, listening space where clients set the pace.
Estela also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thinking and behavior patterns and to try new ways of coping. For couples and relationship work she incorporates elements of the Gottman Method and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to strengthen communication and emotional connection.
Clients can expect collaborative planning, straightforward strategies, and support for real-life problems like sleep and eating issues, parenting stress, career changes, and caregiver fatigue. Estela frames work as a partnership aimed at manageable steps toward change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Estela uses a mix of approaches to meet practical needs. The Gottman Method offers tools to improve communication and reduce conflict by helping partners notice patterns and practice new ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the work focused on the person's goals by creating a listening, respectful space where the client sets the pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practice small experiments to change how they feel and act.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Estela works collaboratively to figure out which methods best match a client's goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship work, phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging can be used for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help make therapy more accessible across daily life.
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Experience
15+ years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English, Spanish