About Irene
Irene Kepler welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She helps with stress, anxiety, mood shifts, relationship struggles, grief, and issues related to identity and sexuality.
Irene is a licensed clinical social worker - first listed as a Licensed Master Social Worker and also holding a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - with over two decades of practice in Arizona and Michigan. She prefers straightforward, calm conversations where a person can talk about what matters most.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete steps and tools that a person can try between meetings. Irene uses approaches like cognitive behavioral work, dialectical skills, and mindfulness to help people manage difficult thoughts and emotions. Her background includes supporting people affected by trauma, family conflict, adoption and foster care matters, and caregiving stress.
She also addresses concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, addiction, ADHD, body image, and intimacy-related issues. That range helps her match practical methods to each person's situation. Irene often blends solution-focused strategies with motivational interviewing to set clear goals and keep momentum.
She makes space for difficult feelings while helping people create everyday routines that reduce overwhelm. Her style mixes listening with straightforward suggestions you can use right away. Many clients find it useful that Irene draws on somatic ideas and mindfulness to reconnect with the body when emotions feel too big.
She aims to help people build small, steady changes that add up to real relief. If someone wants practical support and a collaborative partner, Irene offers that steady, experienced presence.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Irene commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies in online work. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and mood problems. Dialectical behavior work emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills for managing intense feelings.She also brings mindfulness into online sessions to help clients notice bodily sensations and pause before reacting. Mindfulness can be useful for sleep, chronic stress, and grounding after upsetting memories. Choosing the right mix of these approaches is part of the process; the therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what feels most useful based on goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief, focused exchanges or ongoing check-ins between appointments to keep momentum.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Michigan
- Languages
- English