Services offered

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Individual Therapy

Irene utilizes cognitive and mindfulness based therapies as well as shame resiliency techniques with individual clients. These methods are research driven and help clients to better understand themselves and their world, behave in accordance with their values, and build lives worth living. Irene can help resolve trauma or emotional distress, improve quality of life and self-esteem, navigate life transitions, and help find fulfillment in life.

Treatment begins with an assessment session. We would then discuss your goals for treatment and collaborate on how to move forward.

Sessions are weekly or bi-weekly.

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EMDR Therapy

Irene is fully certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). EMDR has been shown to neutralize traumatic or distressing symptoms in as little as five hours of treatment.

EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the client to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotions associated with the trauma memories. EMDR therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences (About EMDR therapy. EMDR International Association. (2022, July 27). Retrieved October 8, 2022, from https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/).


Sessions are weekly or bi-weekly.

Sex Therapy

Sex therapy can help with anyone experiencing sexual dysfunction, including:

  • Healing from sexual trauma

  • Loss of spark or attraction

  • Delayed ejaculation

  • Sexual performance anxiety

  • Premature ejaculation

  • Lack of orgasm

  • Delayed ejaculation

  • Painful intercourse

  • Low sexual intercourse/ arousal

Irene will work with you to create a treatment plan using the PLISSIT model (permission, limited information, specific suggestions, and intensive therapy).

This model consists of permission granting, giving limited information, coaching suitable interventions, and providing intensive psychotherapy when appropriate. Sex therapy can be used with clients who are both single and in relationships.

Irene is kink-friendly and ethical non-monogamy friendly!

Sex therapy does not involve any physical or sexual contact between clients and therapists.

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Couple Therapy

Irene is one of the few Certified Gottman Method Therapists in Utah. The Gottman Method is a research-based approach that focuses on two goals: discontinuing negative communication patterns and destructive behaviors in relationships, while increasing warmth, closeness, relationship strengths, and loving bonds. 

Treatment begins a four session assessment phase:  
1st session: Session with both partners together.      
2nd session: 45 minute session with partner one.    
3rd session: 45 minute session with partner two. 
4th session: Treatment planning session with both partners.

Couples will also be asked to complete a “Relationship Checkup“ from the Gottman Institute, which will help guide our treatment together.

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Discernment Counseling

If you or your partner are considering divorce but are not completely sure that’s the best path, you are in a tough spot. And Discernment Counseling is designed for you. It’s a chance to slowdown, take a breath, and look at your options for your relationship.
Discernment Counseling is a new way of helping couples where one person is “leaning out” of the relationship—and not sure that regular couples counseling would help--and the other is "leaning in”—that is, interested in rebuilding the relationship. The counselor will help you decide whether to try to restore your relationship to health, move toward separation, or take a time-out and decide later.
The goal is for you to gain clarity and confidence about a direction, based on a deeper understanding of your relationship and its possibilities for the future; not to solve your relationship problems, but to see if they are solvable. You will each be treated with compassion and respect no matter how you are feeling about your relationship at the moment. No bad guys or good guys. You will come in as a couple but the most important work occurs in the one-to-one conversations with the counselor. Why? Because you are starting out in different places. The counselor respects your reasons for separation while trying to open up the possibility of restoring the relationship to health. The counselor emphasizes the importance of each of you seeing your own contributions to the problems and the possible solutions. This will be useful in future relationships even if this one ends.

Number of Sessions: A maximum of six counseling sessions. The first session is usually two hours and the subsequent are 90 minutes.

Questions before getting started? Get in touch.