Irina Sundukova, LPC

Pennsylvania · 15 years in practice

Irina Sundukova is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of clinical experience.

License and registration

LPC, Pennsylvania: PC014724 · expires February 2027
NPI: 1831619071 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 15
Languages: English, Spanish, Russian

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Irina

Irina Sundukova is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel stuck by listening closely and offering steady support. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping clients find clearer ways to cope and connect.

She often supports people dealing with relationship strain, family problems, eating and food-related concerns, anger, and depression. Irina works to create an open space where people can say what they feel without judgment.

Background and approach

Sessions focus on understanding emotions and finding practical next steps. Irina draws on several approaches to suit each person’s needs. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people spot and change patterns in close relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer tools for tolerating strong emotions and building new habits. She also addresses areas such as attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, control and commitment worries, and grief-related concerns like guilt and shame.

Irina supports people navigating divorce and blended family challenges as well as those facing emptiness or eating-related struggles. Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, and Russian. She accepts international clients and aims to match therapy methods to what each person needs.

Starting therapy can feel hard, and Irina focuses on creating steady, practical steps forward.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Irina lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Eating disorders
Anger management
Depression
Antisocial personality
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
Blended family issues
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Dependent personality
Divorce and separation
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Narcissism
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Personality disorders
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Self-harm
Self-love
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Irina names

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Online support

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and change recurring emotional patterns that harm close relationships. Online sessions let clients talk through these moments and name the feelings that drive behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and committing to chosen values; it provides exercises clients can practice between sessions to build a different life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear, step-by-step strategies such as thought records and behavior experiments that work over video or phone.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Irina will collaborate with each client to try methods and decide what fits best for their goals, needs, and daily life. Therapy can shift over time, combining emotion-focused conversation with skills from ACT or CBT as progress suggests.

Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging lets people fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and body language cues. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, homework, or pacing support between longer sessions. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible for different lifestyles and needs.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does Irina commonly help with?

She works with people facing relationship strain, family problems, eating and food-related issues, anger, and depression. Additional focuses include attachment issues, communication problems, codependency, and grief-related feelings like guilt and shame.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is warm and direct, creating an open space for honest emotional work. She mixes emotion-focused conversation with practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns.

How much experience does she have?

She has 15 years of professional experience working with a range of relationship and emotional concerns. That background informs a blend of conversational and skills-based work.

What credentials and location apply?

She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, licensed in Pennsylvania. Her professional credentials are listed as LPC in PA.

Which languages are supported and can international clients join?

Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, and Russian. She does accept international clients.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. These options allow for shorter check-ins or full-length conversations.

How are costs handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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