Estelle Bajou is a Licensed Master of Social Work (LMSW) who graduated with Honors from Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work. As a bicultural, first-generation American, she speaks fluent French and some Spanish, and has experience supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds facing challenges around a variety of mental health needs including depression, anxiety, trauma, and abuse, as well as the impacts of immigration status, foster care and justice system involvement, poverty, LGBTQ+ identity, race, and other intersectional areas of marginalization. Using Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed, Strengths-based, and Psychodynamic work with individuals and families, as well as Art Therapy with groups (including music, movement/dance, theater, creative writing, and visual art), she takes a collaborative approach to create empathetic, non-judgmental spaces in which people feel empowered to heal and grow. She is proud to serve as a therapist at Minds Together in New York City. Member: National Association of Social Workers.

As a social worker, she is also committed to achieving ecosocial justice through policy change and advocacy, and is a member of working groups with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, the Green Economy Coalition, and The Sierra Club, as well as being active in her local community.