About Irina
Irina Sundukova welcomes people who are struggling with relationship and family tensions. She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience. Irina speaks English, Spanish, and Russian, which can make it easier for some people to open up.
She focuses on practical work around relationships, family problems, eating and food-related issues, anger, and depression. In sessions she aims to build a calm space where people can say what they feel and think without judgement.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and centered on the client’s real-life concerns. Irina uses several approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns.
She also uses emotion-focused and acceptance-based methods to help people understand and tolerate difficult feelings. People can expect a collaborative tone in sessions. Irina helps set small goals, practices new skills, and talks through setbacks in a down-to-earth way.
She pays attention to how relationships and past patterns affect current behavior. Her background includes many years working with adults on issues such as attachment challenges, communication problems, codependency, and the fallout from separation or divorce. This experience shapes a practical, steady approach that aims for clearer choices and better day-to-day coping.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. In practice this means naming values, choosing small steps, and practicing actions that align with what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions use simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she will suggest methods to try and adjust the plan based on what feels useful and realistic for the person.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good when visual cues matter, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text formats work well for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Russian