About Iris
Iris Wilsek is a Florida licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience in behavioral health. She has worked across both inpatient and outpatient settings and has spent more than ten years in independent practice. Iris helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and related concerns by offering steady professional support and practical strategies.
She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name what’s going on and figure out next steps.
How Iris works
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable changes that fit day-to-day life. Iris combines conversation with hands-on tools so progress can be measured and repeated. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
That mix is used to address mood, coping skills, relationship patterns, self-esteem, substance concerns, and other stressors. Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer work on deeper patterns. Iris works with people navigating grief, career shifts, caregiver strain, chronic illness, ADHD-related struggles, and the emotional fallout of family problems or separation.
She also helps with issues such as hoarding, guilt, and compassion fatigue. Practical skills for sleep, eating, and anger management are part of the work when useful. Sessions are offered in English by a practitioner based in Florida.
The tone is straightforward, warm, and focused on helping clients take concrete steps toward feeling better.
Iris lists 7 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or sleep problems. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so clients can find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose techniques that match the client's goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying one method for a while, mixing elements from different approaches, or shifting course as progress is tracked.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options help people keep momentum between sessions and fit therapy into real life situations.
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