About Irinah
Irinah Jurkowski is an AASW-accredited social worker with 15 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, listening presence for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain and major life changes. Irinah writes in plain terms and focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions.
Her style is collaborative and warm. She creates a respectful, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what feels hard. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and pace, with a mix of short-term strategies and deeper reflection as required.
Background and approach
Over her career Irinah has worked in independent practice and community settings, helping people from diverse backgrounds. She uses a blend of approaches to suit different concerns, including solution-focused techniques and exploratory, depth-oriented methods. That lets her address both immediate coping skills and longer-standing patterns that cause distress.
Irinah has particular experience supporting people through trauma and abuse, and she is trained in the Richards Trauma Process (TRTP). She also helps with issues such as attachment and communication problems, codependency, chronic illness and caregiver stress. People work with Irinah to build self-awareness, improve emotional resilience and change unhelpful patterns.
Her aim is to support steady, realistic progress so people feel more able to manage life’s challenges and reconnect with what matters to them.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Solution-focused techniques focus on practical steps and short-term goals. They help when immediate coping strategies are needed for anxiety, stress or everyday relationship problems. Exploratory, depth-oriented methods look at patterns that recur over time, such as attachment issues and repeated relationship struggles, and help people understand the roots of their reactions and choices.Choosing the right way of working is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try different approaches when needed, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This means the method evolves with what is most helpful rather than being fixed at the start.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter sessions, frequent check-ins, or when writing helps people process thoughts. These options give flexibility to fit sessions around work, caregiving and other commitments while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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