About Irma
Irma Mireles is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience. She focuses on meeting people where they are and helping them find practical ways to cope. Irma speaks English and Spanish and works with people in Texas.
Irma uses a mix of approaches shaped around each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape emotions. She also uses client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on what matters most to the person.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps her guide people toward changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing career changes, compassion fatigue, self-esteem challenges, and multicultural concerns.
Additional focuses include body image, social anxiety, abandonment, and caregiver stress. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Irma emphasizes collaboration and practical steps you can use between sessions.
She aims to create a respectful space where people can talk through difficult feelings and build coping skills. Irma practices in Texas and holds a Texas LCSW license, number TX LCSW 51649. She asks that both client and therapist be located in Texas for sessions to proceed.
To begin, people are encouraged to use the site process to be matched and schedule a first appointment.
How attachment and CBT translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can use this approach to notice patterns in how people connect, feel hurt, or seek closeness. Client-centered therapy focuses on active listening and on the person's priorities. In a session the therapist reflects what is said, asks gentle questions, and follows the client's lead to build trust and clarity.Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will collaborate with each person to choose what fits best. She will talk through goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what is helpful. That shared decision-making helps match techniques to individual needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer different practical benefits. Video allows eye contact and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and messaging can be used for quick check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish