Irene Kyprianides
Compassionate, practical support for family life
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Irene
Irene Kyprianides uses practical, evidence-based therapies to help people handle parenting challenges and family stress. She combines clear strategies with steady support so parents can manage anxiety, mood changes, and difficult life transitions. Irene writes and speaks plainly in sessions to make tools easy to use at home.
She is an LMSW, which means she holds a master’s degree in social work and a state license to practice. Irene has practiced since 2008 in personal and community settings, bringing 15 years of experience to each meeting.
Background and approach
Her work includes supporting people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and complex family circumstances. She has particular training in trauma-focused approaches and in motivational interviewing. Her style is strengths-based and collaborative.
Irene listens for what is working and helps parents build on those strengths while addressing specific problems. She teaches concrete skills such as coping techniques, communication practices, and step-by-step plans that fit day-to-day family life. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to help reduce stress and refocus on short-term goals.
Irene has experience with adoption and foster care-related issues, attachment concerns, and parenting strategies for complex needs. Her goal is to help people find manageable ways forward in their family life. Clients can expect straightforward guidance and practical tools they can try between sessions.
Irene aims to be a steady partner while parents build new patterns and regain confidence in caring for their families.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting support
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. It teaches clear, step-by-step tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood swings, and handle day-to-day parenting stress. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice stress and strong emotions without reacting immediately. Simple mindfulness skills can reduce overwhelm and improve focus during busy family routines.Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and personal preferences and suggest techniques that feel manageable. Sessions often combine methods so work at home matches what matters most for the family.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let parents fit sessions into tight schedules and use strategies between visits. The variety of formats helps people keep continuity of care even when life gets busy or travel is necessary. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to each chosen format so progress continues whether sessions happen by video, phone, or message.
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.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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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