About Irene
Irene Kyprianides is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and complex life transitions. She uses straightforward tools to help clients cope with daily challenges and improve functioning. Irene aims to create a calm, practical space for problem solving and emotional relief.
She blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help clients notice patterns, reduce overwhelm, and build steady habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, doable steps that fit into real life. This approach is often helpful for people navigating ADHD, grief, bipolar mood shifts, or caregiving strain. Irene has worked in independent practice and community settings since 2008.
That background includes crisis intervention and long-term support for trauma, parenting challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and behavior difficulties linked to developmental diagnoses. She draws on years of hands-on experience when tailoring plans. She favors a strengths-based style that highlights what people already do well.
Conversations identify practical strategies for daily routines, impulse control, and emotion regulation. Homework and check-ins are simple and focused on steady progress. Irene holds a Master of Social Work and is an LMSW, which signals a graduate-level social work credential.
She offers an approachable, goal-oriented partnership for people ready to make manageable changes.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Irene commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors through small experiments and practical homework. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and grounding exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can help with stress and ADHD-related challenges.She also uses motivational interviewing to help clarify goals and increase commitment to change. That approach is collaborative and asks about what matters to you, then builds on your own reasons to move forward. Together you and the therapist will decide which methods fit your goals and adjust the plan as needed so it feels workable and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat allow for short check-ins and ongoing support between appointments. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and keep progress moving even when their schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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