About Ingrid
Ingrid Koehler helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and the effects of trauma. She is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience and holds BACP registration. Ingrid speaks English and offers online and remote sessions to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Her style is warm and respectful. She invites clients to tell their story and uses that material as the starting point for practical work.
How Ingrid works
Sessions focus on understanding how problems began, unpicking painful feelings such as shame or guilt, and building clearer ways to cope day to day. Ingrid draws on attachment-based and emotionally focused approaches when relationships or closeness are central to the difficulty. She also uses client-centred ways of working that place the person’s experience at the heart of the conversation.
For trauma-related concerns she applies trauma-focused methods to address both single-event and long-standing developmental wounds. Her clinical background includes many years working in cancer care within the NHS before moving into personal counselling practice in 2011. That mix of healthcare and counselling experience informs a practical, steady manner in sessions.
People can expect straightforward conversation and gentle challenge rather than jargon. Typical issues addressed include depression, coping with life changes, intimacy-related problems, eating concerns, anger, low self-esteem and compassion fatigue. Ingrid also works with more specific difficulties such as attachment and abandonment, codependency, dissociation and the aftermath of domestic violence or infidelity.
She asks clients to collaborate on a plan that fits their needs, adjusting pace and focus as progress is made. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different circumstances.
Ingrid lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Ingrid works with
The areas below are the ones Ingrid selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can help people recognise patterns of closeness, fear of abandonment or avoidance and practise new ways of connecting with others.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on clarifying core emotions and changing interactional cycles that harm relationships. This method is useful for repairing trust, addressing intimacy-related issues and working through strong emotional reactions in a steady way.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide what methods suit a person's needs, goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as new issues emerge or progress is made.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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