About Irene
Irene Batista is a bilingual therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, and parenting challenges. She works with clients on coping with life changes and on specific concerns like caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety. She practices with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Sessions focus on what matters most to each person and move at a pace that feels comfortable. Irene tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person’s needs and goals.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the client's own goals and experiences, and cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors relate to feelings. Irene combines these methods to create practical steps people can try between sessions. She brings seven years of professional experience and carries the LCPC credential, which is listed as IL LCPC.
Irene offers services in English and Spanish for people based in Illinois. Starting therapy with her involves a short matching process and then scheduling the first appointment. The work is collaborative and focused on small, achievable changes that build over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy is built around the person’s own priorities. It focuses on listening, reflecting what matters to you, and shaping sessions around your goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings connect and offers practical skills to reduce anxiety and change patterns that get in the way. Both approaches can be used to address stress, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and try approaches that fit their needs and preferences. If one method isn’t helpful right away, adjustments are made together so the plan stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or an easier option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between sessions or fit therapy into a busy day. These formats help make consistent progress more practical for many people.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish