About Iris
Iris Wilsek is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Florida. She brings 20 years of experience across inpatient, outpatient, and independent practice settings. Iris focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns.
She aims to build a calm, straightforward space where people can speak freely and begin practical steps toward change. Over two decades of practice have given Iris experience with many life challenges. She has worked in hospitals and clinics and has more than ten years in independent practice.
Background and approach
This background means she has seen a wide range of issues, from mood and anxiety disorders to grief, addiction, and caregiver stress. In sessions Iris uses methods like cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and client-centered work. She blends talking, goal-setting, and simple exercises to help people notice patterns and try different responses.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in when they fit the person’s goals. People can expect a direct and compassionate style. Iris helps break problems into manageable steps and focuses on what can change now.
She pays attention to practical tools for sleep, eating, anger, and coping with life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Iris works with adults who want to reduce symptoms and build coping skills, improve relationships, and find more balance in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Two central approaches Iris uses are cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce symptoms such as anxiety, low mood, or sleep problems. ACT helps people notice their values and take action toward them, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present; it can be useful for long-term change and for coping with chronic stress.She also draws on client-centered work, which prioritizes listening and meeting each person where they are. Choosing the right approach is a joint process - the therapist and client discuss goals and try methods that fit the person’s needs and preferences. Adjustments are made along the way based on what proves most helpful.
Online therapy is offered by licensed professionals through several formats: video calls for conversations that feel most like an in-person visit, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera helps, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, and daily life while still focusing on concrete tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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