Irene Landouris

Irene Landouris is an AASW social worker with 20 years of clinical experience in Australia. She works with people facing relationship strain, family challenges, trauma and abuse, depression, and life changes. Irene uses a relational, body-informed approach and draws on many clinical settings from child protection to adult mental health.

Her background includes work in child and adolescent mental health, acute psychiatry, youth justice, crisis sexual assault services and private practice. This range informs how she sees the systems around a person and the practical pressures that affect wellbeing. She describes her work as attentive to both thought and body, and interested in how patterns play out in everyday life.

In sessions Irene often focuses on nervous system regulation and body-based practices alongside talk-based reflection. She pays attention to attachment, abandonment histories, and how past hurt shapes current relationships. She also supports people managing grief, anxiety, and the practical stresses of caregiver roles.

People coming to Irene can expect a relational style that is grounded and paced to their needs. She is experienced in matters such as adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, communication problems, dissociation, and domestic violence. Practical planning and system-level thinking are part of her offering when useful.

Her work can also include conversations about meaning, existential questions, and spiritual emergence for those who bring those topics. Irene practises in private settings and asks new clients to complete a short questionnaire before scheduling a first session.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Irene draws on body-informed and relational approaches that pay attention to how stress shows up physically and inside relationships. Body-informed techniques focus on noticing breath, muscle tension and simple regulation practices that can reduce immediate distress and help people feel steadier in their day. Relational approaches look at repeated patterns between people and how attachment history affects current relationships, useful for communication problems and commitment worries.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Irene will discuss different methods with clients and check what fits their goals, pace and preferences rather than prescribing one way from the outset. Together they adjust techniques as needs change over time.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Practically, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments. They can also allow shorter check-ins or sessions without video when that helps with concentration or bandwidth. Irene and her clients decide the best format together based on what suits daily life and the work they want to do.