Iris Tanton, LMHC

Iris Tanton is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 6 years of professional experience across a variety of clinical settings. Raised as a first-generation Latin woman in the United States and later living for many years in Spain, she brings a multicultural perspective informed by bilingual experience and time spent abroad. While in Europe she studied Culinary Arts and trained as a chef with a focus on healthy cooking, which contributed to an integrative approach to wellness that honors connections among mind, body, and spirit.

Iris holds certifications in Biofeedback and Culinary Health Coaching and has completed specialized training in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy focused on both preparation and integration work. Those professional qualifications combine with lived experience as a parent of three young adults and a long-term partner to shape a compassionate, whole-person orientation to care. Her background supports attention to cultural context, lifestyle factors, and embodied healing alongside talk-based interventions.

She works with people seeking insight into anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, grief, eating and body-image issues, parenting and family challenges, anger and self-esteem struggles, and coping with life changes. Additional clinical focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, communication and commitment problems, dissociation, feelings of emptiness, and exploration of life purpose.

Iris’s therapeutic style is informed by mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused methods, client-centered principles, narrative approaches, and trauma-focused interventions. She integrates trauma-informed techniques such as Compassionate Inquiry and parts work when appropriate, and she uses biofeedback and holistic wellness knowledge as complementary tools. In sessions she aims to create a nonjudgmental space for curiosity, helping people identify unhelpful patterns, develop practical coping strategies, and discover new narratives that support meaningful forward movement.