About Irene
Irene Kepler is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety and stress. She brings 22 years of experience and listens with directness and warmth. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at small changes that make daily life easier.
She focuses on problems such as depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and relationship strain. Irene also supports people dealing with LGBT concerns, parenting stress, and challenges like sleep or eating problems.
Background and approach
She works with issues related to attachment, adoption and foster care, and gender dysphoria when relevant to an individual’s goals. In sessions she uses flexible methods rather than one fixed approach. Irene draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses mindfulness and skills-based work to reduce overwhelm and manage intense emotions. Her background includes long-term clinical practice in Arizona and Michigan, giving her experience across a wide range of life situations. Irene aims to create a nonjudgmental space where someone can talk through painful experiences and try new coping strategies.
People who choose to work with her often want clear tools they can practice between sessions. She helps clients set concrete goals, track small steps, and build routines that support better sleep, mood, and relationships. Irene frames therapy as a collaborative process focused on workable change.
Approach and online therapy options
Irene commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often focuses on small, practical experiments and habit changes that can reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness therapy to help with emotion regulation. DBT-style skills teach ways to tolerate distress and improve communication, while mindfulness practice helps reduce rumination and increase present-moment focus.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps shape which techniques are emphasized over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick skill reminders, in-between support, or when writing feels easier than talking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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