About Irina

Meet Irina: Irina is incisive and warm — she has a way of leaving you not just supported, but actually feeling good for a change. And because her training is also grounded in assessment, she gets to the root of what’s going on instead of circling around it. She’s a doctoral-level clinician completing her advanced training at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Washington, DC.

In The Room: Irina’s work spans high-pressure institutional and private settings, where she offers trauma-informed, attachment-focused therapy and formal psychological testing. She works especially well with burnout, complex trauma, imposter syndrome, and anxiety — and with the people who’ve had to work twice as hard for what others seem to get handed to them.

Why She Joined SENS: SENS designs care around the actual person — which is exactly how Irina works. She loves working with individuals looking to really understand what’s underneath their issues, and with couples under extreme stress who find the pressure is turning them against each other.

She’s at her best with people in the middle of a real transition: women who built something hard and are wondering what’s next; men whose relationships have started to feel like one more job, often on top of a full-time job that already feels unfulfilling or unsustainable; parents who are overwhelmed and hate to admit how hard it is; students who are tired of managing every move to optimize success.

Why You’ll Love Her: Irina is seriously rigorous — and not the least bit rigid. Her energy is infectious, but underneath it she simply loves taking care of people, and she’s genuinely fascinated by how a given mind is wired and how that wiring plays out in love and at work.

She’s especially good with people who’ve built a life that works on paper and doesn’t quite fit what they want anymore. And really — why does it all have to be this hard? Irina knows you’re up against a lot right now: AI scrambling everything, expectations coming from every direction, the bar you’ve set for yourself that seems impossible to clear. With her, the point is relief — not just from the pressure, but from the way it’s been making you feel.

French Fries or Onion Rings: Either way, it’s gotta have hot mustard.