About Irene
Irene Jirinzu is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She keeps sessions straightforward and supportive so worried parents can understand next steps. Irene emphasizes respect and compassion in her work and aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable.
Irene has four years of professional experience and holds LCSW credentials in Texas and Nevada. She commonly helps people coping with addictions, trauma and abuse, and relationship strains.
Background and approach
She also addresses mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, and areas like sleep, eating, and self-esteem. In session she tailors conversation and plans to each person’s needs. She draws on practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to help change unhelpful patterns.
She also uses acceptance-based ideas to help people tolerate difficult feelings while living toward their values. Irene pays attention to attachment dynamics and how early relationships shape current behavior. That perspective is useful for people working through intimacy and relationship issues.
It also helps when grief, caregiving stress, or chronic illness affect daily life. She offers phone and video sessions plus live chat and text messaging for check-ins. Signing up starts with a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a session.
Irene keeps her language plain and direct to make each visit feel focused and clear.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name their values, notice painful thoughts and feelings, and take steps that match what matters to them. It is often used when anxiety or chronic stress gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through concrete exercises and skill practice, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.Irene treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest a mix of methods. Together they review what is helping and adjust plans as needed so therapy fits day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work through deeper material and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or quick coping reminders between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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