About Iris
Iris Wilsek is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience in Florida. She has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has spent more than a decade in independent practice. Iris focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening without judgment and offering practical steps forward.
She commonly helps with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and anger. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, sleep and eating problems, addiction concerns, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Iris works with clients on issues related to caregiving, chronic illness, and burnout among helping professionals. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions tend to mix practical strategies with attention to values and what matters most to each person.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation, gentle challenge, and homework when it helps progress. Iris uses techniques from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavior approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered methods. These tools are selected to match the problem at hand and the client’s pace.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Iris aims to make therapy approachable for people juggling work, family, or health demands.
How Iris brings evidence-based approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unwanted thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful when anxiety, avoidance, or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the client’s own goals guide the work.Iris treats finding the right approach as a team effort. Early sessions are used to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan if something does not fit. She invites feedback and adapts methods to match each person’s pace and needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for deep conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let clients keep progress going between appointments or fit support into a busy day. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or health concerns and make it easier to keep consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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