About Ingrid
Ingrid Vicencio is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She has seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. Ingrid speaks English and Spanish and focuses on creating a straightforward, compassionate space for people to talk about what matters most to them.
Her approach centers on practical tools and clear conversation. She uses methods like cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice thought patterns.
How Ingrid works
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and coping techniques. These approaches are applied in simple, step-by-step ways during sessions. Ingrid has worked with concerns such as relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and eating-related issues.
She also helps people facing family-related stress, body image struggles, and questions about life purpose. Her practice pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and codependency can shape daily life. Sessions may include talk therapy, skill practice, and brief exercises that clients can use between meetings.
Ingrid uses motivational interviewing and narrative techniques to support change and to help people reframe difficult stories about themselves. She aims for practical progress rather than jargon-filled explanations. People who prefer clear guidance and steady support may find her style fits well.
Her work is direct and caring, with an emphasis on realistic goals and doable steps. The first meeting focuses on understanding immediate concerns and planning what comes next.
Ingrid lists 8 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Ingrid’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with simple behavioral experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day challenges. DBT skills teach concrete ways to manage intense emotions and improve how people handle conflict and distress. These skills are helpful for anger, relationship strain, and emotion regulation. EMDR is a method that helps process traumatic memories by focusing on eye movements and guided attention; it can reduce the hold that past trauma has on current life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods that match the problem and adjust the plan as needed, keeping the process collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video makes it possible to use visual tools and real-time skill coaching. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions.
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