About Ingrid
Ingrid Wheeler is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, client-centered care to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other approaches to help people build skills and feel steadier day to day. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on solving real problems.
That can mean noticing thoughts that get in the way, practicing new ways to cope, or finding small changes that make life easier.
How Ingrid works
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Ingrid has 11 years of clinical experience in Illinois as an LCSW. Over that time she has worked with people facing depression, mood disorders, addiction, grief, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports parents and caregivers dealing with burnout and role strain. Her work includes addressing communication problems, impulsivity, money and career stress, and questions about life purpose and midlife transitions. Ingrid uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to help people set goals they can reach.
Sessions emphasize practical tools you can use between meetings. Clients leave with clear action steps, coping strategies, and ways to track progress. The aim is steady, sustainable change that fits each person's life and values.
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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and guides conversations toward the goals they choose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. These approaches are often used together to build coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ingrid will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best. That choice is based on your goals, the issues you bring, and what feels helpful in early sessions, not a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you meet face to face and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and quick notes about progress or hurdles. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life demands.
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