About Irene
Irene Jirinzu offers straightforward, respectful care for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction struggles, and relationship or family tensions. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - who works with adults in Texas. Irene aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what feels hard and figure out practical next steps.
Irene bases sessions on the needs of each person. She listens closely and adjusts the conversation and plan to fit what someone hopes to change.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings and on understanding patterns that keep problems returning. Her background includes four years working in clinical settings, supporting people who have experienced trauma, grief, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also helps with issues like sleep, eating concerns, intimacy, and caregiving stress.
Irene brings attention to how attachment, life transitions, and identity concerns affect daily functioning. In practice she uses approaches such as acceptance and commitment work, mindfulness, cognitive techniques, and attachment-based ideas. These methods are explained in simple language and applied in ways that fit each person’s situation.
Expect gentle, practical guidance rather than clinical jargon. People who choose Irene tend to want a steady, compassionate listener who offers clear tools. She encourages clients to set realistic goals and to try skills between sessions.
The focus is on small, doable changes that lead to better coping and clearer decision making.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them drive actions, then choose values-based steps. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy uses simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, useful for stress, sleep, and emotion regulation.Irene treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with clients about goals and preferences, try approaches that fit, and adjust plans over time. This collaborative process lets the person shape what therapy looks like rather than following a fixed recipe.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit during a busy day. Text and chat options provide shorter check-ins or ongoing contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep appointments and apply skills in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Nevada
- Languages
- English