Irene McCready Clinical Counsellor (MSW, RSW)

Meet Irene (she/her)

EMDR • IFS • Somatic Therapy • Emotion-Focused Therapy • Integrated Mind-Body Approach

With over 25 years of experience, Irene McCready offers a calm, grounded presence for individuals and couples navigating trauma, emotional overwhelm, and relationship challenges. She brings deep clinical skill and an intuitive, relational approach to therapy. Whether you are working through grief, long-term stress, anxiety, or unresolved attachment wounds, Irene creates a space where healing can unfold at your pace.

Who Irene Works With

• Adults navigating anxiety, shame, identity questions, or the long-term impacts of developmental and relational trauma. Sessions often focus on self-understanding, emotional integration, and building nervous system capacity.

• Couples who want to deepen connection, work through conflict, or shift old communication patterns. Troy offers a structured but compassionate space to slow down reactive cycles and reconnect from a place of safety and clarity.

• Families seeking support for more easeful dynamics, clearer roles, and healing after rupture. His work with families draws from systems theory and body-based awareness to address intergenerational patterns and unspoken needs.

Areas of Specialization

Irene’s work is grounded in a holistic, trauma-informed lens. Her areas of focus include:

• Complex trauma and PTSD

• Anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and burnout

• Grief, loss, and major life transitions

• Relationship and attachment difficulties

• Supporting first responders and healthcare professionals

Clients often describe Irene as intuitive, gentle, and deeply respectful. She is attuned to both spoken and unspoken experience, and supports clients in reconnecting with themselves, their emotions, and their capacity for change.

Approaches Used in Therapy

• EMDR Therapy

  To help process and resolve traumatic memories, emotional stuckness, and internal distress at the level of the nervous system.

• Somatic Therapy

  To support regulation, embodiment, and release of long-held stress through body-based awareness.

• Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  To explore inner protective systems and create space for self-compassion, clarity, and internal connection.

• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)

  To foster emotional insight and deepen relational understanding within individuals and couples.

• Mindfulness and Grounding Practices

  To support emotional presence, nervous system balance, and stress recovery.

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  To help shift limiting thought patterns and support behavioural change.

Irene’s integrative approach weaves together these modalities in response to each client’s unique needs, always grounded in respect, attunement, and emotional safety.

What To Expect

Irene’s sessions are spacious and steady. She brings a warm, client-centred presence that helps clients feel safe enough to explore difficult emotions and long-standing patterns. Her style is relational, body-aware, and emotionally intelligent. She listens for what needs attention — and supports you in moving through it with care.

Whether you’re facing burnout, disconnection, or grief that feels too big to carry alone, Irene works collaboratively to build clarity, capacity, and a deeper sense of inner stability.

Online Therapy Across BC

Irene offers online counselling through a secure video platform, making therapy accessible across British Columbia. Clients from Surrey, Langley, Vancouver, Victoria, and rural communities can receive high-quality care from the privacy of home.

Online sessions are well-suited for those with health concerns, caregiving responsibilities, busy schedules, or limited access to in-person therapy.

Ready to Begin?

If you’re looking for a therapist with empathy, skill and over 25 years of experience, Irene may be a good therapist for you.

Book a Free 15-minute Consultation or complete our New Client Form to get started.