About Iréné
Iréné Celcer is a bilingual psychotherapist who supports people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She also helps people facing intimacy issues, parenting strain, identity questions related to LGBT matters, ADHD challenges, and career or caregiver burnout. Iréné works in Georgia and speaks Spanish as well as English.
She brings 30 years of clinical experience to sessions and holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and CSW.
Background and approach
Her style is respectful and compassionate. She avoids labels and centers each person’s own knowledge about their life. Sessions aim to be collaborative so the client stays in the driver’s seat of care.
In practice she mixes psychodynamic ideas with mindfulness and client-centered listening. She helps people notice patterns that repeat from past relationships and makes space for feelings to be named. She also offers practical problem-focused strategies to manage symptoms and day-to-day challenges.
Iréné is bicultural and draws on life and study in New York, California, Argentina, and familiarity with parts of Europe to inform multicultural understanding. She explains emotions in plain language and focuses on small, tangible changes people can try between sessions.
People come to her wanting clearer communication, relief from compulsive eating or body-image distress, better ways to handle grief, or help rebuilding after emotional abuse. She works with adults of different backgrounds and adapts her approach to each person’s needs and pace.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Iréné commonly uses client-centered work to follow whatever matters most to the person in the room. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping clients find their own solutions to relationship stress, self-esteem, or identity questions.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice physical sensations, reduce reactivity, and build steady routines for coping with anxiety, compulsive eating urges, or stress. These exercises can be taught and practiced during video or phone sessions.
Psychodynamic ideas are used to spot repeating patterns that influence current relationships and emotional reactions. Talking through these patterns can help when people want deeper understanding of long-standing difficulties like grief or attachment wounds.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. Adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online formats give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and guided mindfulness practice. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, brief reflections, or people who prefer writing between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different rhythms of life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- Spanish