About Iris
Iris Tanton is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with six years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship concerns. Iris also supports those wrestling with grief, addiction, eating or body-image struggles, parenting stress, and major life changes.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She listens first and helps people name what feels off. Sessions focus on practical steps and gentle reflection rather than dense theory.
Background and approach
Iris blends mindfulness, problem-solving, and talk therapy to make changes feel doable. Her background includes growing up in the United States as a first-generation Latin woman and time living abroad in Spain. Those life experiences shaped her view of culture, identity, and wellbeing.
She brings an integrative perspective that pays attention to how thoughts, behavior, and daily routines interact. Iris uses Client-Centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking patterns that keep problems going and on Solution-Focused ideas to set concrete, short-term goals.
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with stress regulation and grounding. In sessions she encourages curiosity and honesty. People work together to identify unhelpful patterns and try small experiments to change them.
The aim is clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more workable habits that fit everyday life.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead. In practice online this means sessions begin where the client feels stuck and progress at their pace, with the therapist asking questions that clarify what matters most and reflecting back what she hears. This approach helps with anxiety, relationship worries, and feelings of emptiness.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is about spotting patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and testing new ways of thinking and acting. Online CBT sessions can include short exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments that fit into daily life to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm the body and steady thinking. These brief exercises are easy to practice between sessions and can be guided over video, phone, or messaging to help with stress and emotional reactivity.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided practices. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief updates into a busy day. These options help therapy stay consistent around real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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