Iris Cohen, LMFT

Iris is truly understanding and supportive throughout the sessions that we had together. She was very good at walking me logically through my thoughts and feelings as well as set clear goals for me to work on in between. She is very supportive, empathetic and has a good way of showing you all your options and has great guidance. Thank you Iris!

I really appreciate her helping me get through some difficult times in my life and setting me up for success. A good listener who really cares about her patients. I highly recommend her.

Iris is understanding, accepting, and truly empowering. After every session, I leave feeling like I have untangled my thoughts and feelings, and am more in control of my life. Not only has she guided me through multiple challenging life transitions, she has helped me gain the confidence that I can move my life in the direction that will be best for me - and she has helped me start on that journey. I greatly appreciate Iris and highly recommend her.

Iris’ support and guidance have been invaluable to me as I have gone through a very difficult and stressful period of my life with multiple, challenging situations and life transitions all at once. I feel so lucky and grateful to have found her.

She was very good at helping me feel comfortable, safe and supported when I first came in, which really says something when you have trust and anxiety issues!

Her therapy style is nurturing, empowering, and compassionate. She is warm, accepting and non-judgmental and is helping me learn to be the same with myself.

She’s really good at:
• checking-in with me about how I feel the therapy sessions are going
• keeping the focus on me and not drawing focus, she stresses that she is here for me
• establishing, clarifying and prioritizing my therapy goals and staying focused on helping me achieve them
• listening with undivided attention and showing genuine interest, concern and care for me, both verbally and non-verbally, reflecting my thoughts back to me, and remembering important events and feelings I’ve conveyed. With her, I feel understood and heard.

I deeply appreciate that she offers not only wonderful emotional support, but also wise, and, for me, much-needed, practical feedback and tools for a wide variety of issues, including:
• new, more helpful ways of thinking
• better awareness and understanding of feelings and needs
• how to have better relationships in all areas of my life with improved communication skills, boundaries and ways to de-escalate and resolve conflicts
• how to build healthy, positive self-esteem
• handling tricky family issues
• healing and making peace with many, unresolved, painful events in my past
• processing grief and loss
• easing stress, worries, anxiety and depression
• successfully replacing long-standing behavior patterns and perceptions that have previously kept me from living my true potential
• helpful ways to resolve career issues

We have sorted out together what types of tools and solutions work best for me and she has adapted and changed methods to meet my needs, showing great flexibility whenever I needed a different approach. I value that she has a large toolbox of evidence-based, therapy techniques, because I’ve had disappointing experiences with therapists in the past using techniques that were not evidenced-based that left me feeling like an un-helped, guinea pig.

But, most importantly, Iris has helped me to feel, for the first time in my life, that I can really get better and improve my life. I feel more hope, optimism and motivation than I ever have with any other therapist. It takes time, and there are plenty of challenges along the way, but it is doable and worth it!

Lastly, I would like to say that one can tell it is her passion to help others, and I can personally attest that, as it says on her “About” page in Psychology Today: our happiness is her first priority!

I have been seeing Iris Cohen for over a year and she has been integral to the growth I've made since. She balances guiding me to make positive changes and step outside of my comfort zone with validating my thoughts and feelings. I trust that each time I sit down with Iris, I will leave feeling more confident and equipped to tackle life's challenges.