About Iris
Iris Tanton is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship difficulties. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, eating and body-image concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Iris speaks English and Spanish and brings six years of clinical experience to her work.
Her style is warm and practical. Sessions focus on noticing patterns, learning small skills, and testing new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She invites curiosity about thoughts and feelings and helps people try focused steps that can change how they cope day to day. Iris blends client-centered listening with evidence-based tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She also uses narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people reframe problems and set achievable goals.
This mix aims to connect insight with concrete strategies. Her background includes living and working in multiple cultures, which informs a flexible, whole-person perspective on healing. That outlook supports work on attachment, abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems, dissociation, and issues around life purpose and isolation.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Therapy follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
With a straightforward, compassionate approach, Iris helps people uncover what is getting in the way and try practical steps toward more manageable days.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what they say, and encourages people to explore their own answers; this helps with self-esteem, life transitions, and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple tools to test unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep coming up.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through short practices and awareness exercises. It helps with stress, emotional reactivity, and grounding after overwhelming experiences.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on needs, goals, and what feels helpful. That means trying options, checking what works, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter updates, reflection between sessions, or when someone prefers typing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish