About Irina
Dr. Irina Fredericks is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida. She brings 15 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, stress, depression, relationship concerns, and life transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and Russian to make communication easier for bilingual clients. Dr. Fredericks uses practical, evidence-informed methods adapted to each person.
She focuses on skills people can use between sessions. Conversations tend to be direct and goal-oriented, with attention to feelings, thinking patterns, and everyday behavior.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, and caregiver stress. She also helps with grief, addiction concerns, intimacy-related worries, and finding purpose during midlife changes. Parenting challenges and anger management are common topics she helps people talk through.
Therapy typically combines acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used when they match a person's goals. The aim is to build coping strategies, clearer choices, and steadier self-regard.
People who benefit tend to want practical steps and clear tools. Sessions encourage active collaboration on goals and follow-up between meetings. Those who prefer straightforward guidance and work-oriented strategies often find this approach useful.
How different approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and values, then take small actions toward what matters. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to shift behavior and mood. It can help with depression, phobias, and social anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and support, giving people space to describe concerns and find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then use methods that fit those needs. This collaborative process can include trying one method and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are close to an in-person meeting, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping therapy practical and consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Russian