Irene Kepler
Family-focused therapist who teaches practical skills
- Credentials
- LMSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Arizona, Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Irene
Irene Kepler greets parents and family members who are looking for practical help managing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, or family conflict. She speaks plainly and focuses on helping families find workable steps. Irene is a licensed clinical social worker with both LMSW and LCSW credentials.
She brings a calm, steady presence that aims to make difficult conversations easier to start. She uses common-sense strategies drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach coping skills and shift unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are woven in to build short-term progress and practical plans. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small changes parents can use right away. With 22 years of experience, Irene has handled a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and relationship strain.
Her work also covers parenting issues, family problems, compassion fatigue, and gender-related matters. She has practiced in Arizona and holds licensure details as MI LMSW 6801086648 and AZ LCSW 20256. Irene is comfortable working with people who identify as LGBT and with those facing adoption, attachment, or caregiver stress.
She also supports people dealing with eating or sleeping difficulties, ADHD, chronic illness, and intimacy-related issues. The approach is collaborative and adapts to each family’s situation. Sessions are offered in English and available to international clients.
Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
The work often includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships through emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindful communication. DBT is helpful when emotional reactivity or relationship conflict is a major issue.
Irene treats choosing methods as a collaborative step. She will talk with each person or family about goals and preferences, and then try approaches that match those needs. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet from home or on the go. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when video isn't possible, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy family schedule while keeping the focus on real, usable skills and small steps forward.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Irene
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point