- Attachment work
- CBT techniques
- Spanish language
About Irma
Irma Mireles is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Texas with 18 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and issues related to intimacy and LGBT concerns. She also addresses compassion fatigue and career or life-change stress.
She works from the person’s needs and focuses on building strengths. Sessions are practical and straightforward. She aims to help people understand what is keeping them stuck and to find concrete steps forward.
Her background includes a mix of approaches she uses depending on the person and the issue. That can mean looking at how relationships and attachment affect current struggles, using ideas from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and shift patterns of thinking, or using client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the person in the room.
Irma lists several additional focus areas she often addresses, including guilt and shame, forgiveness, body image, abandonment, control issues, social anxiety, and multicultural concerns. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress and challenges related to dependent or avoidant personality patterns.
She provides services only to people who are physically located in Texas at the time of sessions. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. To start, she asks people to complete the matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How Irma blends approaches online
Irma commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Attachment-Based work looks at how early and current relationship patterns affect feelings and behavior. It can help people understand why they react strongly to closeness, loss, or rejection. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person, giving space to name priorities and values. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practice small experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting.Finding the right way to work together is part of therapy. She will talk with each person about goals, what feels useful, and how approaches should be combined. That collaboration helps decide whether more relational, exploratory, or skills-focused work fits best.
The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people include Spanish language sessions when preferred. Discussing practical scheduling needs and communication preferences happens during the first steps so sessions fit everyday life.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
18+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English, Spanish
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, intimacy-related issues, LGBT concerns, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and related problems such as body image and guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses a mix of approaches guided by the person’s needs, including Attachment-Based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to understand and shift patterns that keep guilt or shame active.
What is her professional background?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 18 years of experience working with adults across a range of concerns.
Where is she licensed to practice?
Her credential is LCSW and she practices in Texas. Both therapist and client must be in Texas for sessions.
Does she offer sessions in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients; both therapist and client must be located in Texas for sessions.
How does payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session to get started.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.