About Iris
Iris Tanton is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with six years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a calm, practical approach for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. Iris helps people facing life transitions, grief, parenting strain, addiction concerns, eating and body image issues, and problems with self-esteem.
She also supports people working through attachment and abandonment wounds, communication problems, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
How Iris works
Sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress. Her style is warm and curious. She leans on client-centered listening so people feel heard before deciding on techniques.
Iris blends cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. She uses narrative and solution-focused elements to help people rewrite unhelpful stories and map practical next steps. Clients can expect straightforward conversations and homework that fits into daily life.
Iris places attention on how thoughts, habits, and body awareness interact. She aims to help people notice patterns, practice manageable changes, and track small wins. Born to a multicultural family and with years living abroad, Iris brings a broad life perspective to sessions.
Her work is grounded in collaboration - she and the client agree on priorities and plan the steps forward. This makes therapy feel purposeful and easier to fit into a busy life.
Iris lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Iris works with
The areas below are the ones Iris selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Practical approaches for online healing
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you set the pace and goals that feel right. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether more CBT skills, mindful practices, or narrative work fits best. Together they review progress and adjust the plan so therapy stays useful and relevant to the person's goals.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a typical session with visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can keep momentum between meetings or serve as brief check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and maintain continuity while working toward concrete changes.
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