About Iris
Iris Wilsek is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 20 years of professional experience. She has spent time in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has worked in independent practice for over a decade. Iris focuses on practical help for everyday struggles and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and usable.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety and addresses trauma, anger, and depression. Sessions are aimed at identifying small, doable changes that make a difference day to day.
Background and approach
Iris encourages open conversation and a nonjudgmental tone so clients can talk about difficult feelings. Her approach blends evidence-informed methods and a person-focused style. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness to help people notice thought patterns and try new behaviors.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas are also part of her work when people want focused change or clearer goals. Iris has experience with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, grief, substance issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, career changes, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses concerns related to caregiver stress, chronic illness, codependency, and first responder issues.
In sessions she explores what matters most to each person and then builds small steps toward those priorities. The work is collaborative and paced to each individual's needs. She aims to empower people to cope better and move toward a steadier day-to-day life.
Approach and options for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their personal values and take small actions that match those values. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it shifts focus from fighting thoughts to building a meaningful routine.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Iris will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. That may mean mixing ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and coaching-style questions to match the issue at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to keep regular work toward goals while juggling family, work, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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