About Irene
Irene Kyprianides is a licensed Master’s social worker with 15 years of practice experience. She centers her work on clear, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood challenges. Irene speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She has worked in both independent practice and community settings since 2008. That history includes work with anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress, depression, autism spectrum conditions, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and behavior concerns.
Background and approach
She has also supported people facing parenting strain, foster care and adoption challenges, and self-harm behaviors. Irene uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build different habits. She also draws on mindfulness practices to help clients notice their reactions without getting swept up in them.
Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit when people need help finding the motivation to change. Her approach is strengths-based. She takes time to learn about a person’s situation and the forces shaping current struggles.
Sessions aim to be collaborative, with short-term goals and concrete skills people can try between meetings. Clients can expect a steady, practical focus on coping skills, emotion management, and decision-making. Irene often helps people address grief, anger, career stress, ADHD-related challenges, and family-of-origin concerns.
She welcomes international clients and provides services in English.
Approaches that translate well to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different actions. It helps with anxiety, depression, and mood swings by giving concrete skills to change daily habits. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional awareness, useful for stress and trauma symptoms. Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people strengthen their own reasons for change and move toward small achievable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Irene collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She often combines techniques and checks in regularly to adjust the plan so it fits the person’s life and pace.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video sessions enable face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging formats let people share short updates or check-ins between meetings. These options give flexibility for busy schedules, travel, or different communication preferences while keeping the focus on practical strategies and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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