About Ingried
Ingried Upingasana offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or relationship strain. She is named in the first person as a guide who focuses on helping clients find steadier ground and clearer steps forward. She brings five years of counselling experience and holds the BACP credential from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Ingried uses simple, grounded methods so conversations are useful from the first sessions.
How Ingried works
She creates space for people to talk about faith if that matters to them. Sessions often begin with what matters most to the client. The work can include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, noticing moments of strength, and practising breathing and mindfulness skills.
Short practical tasks between sessions help people try new ways of coping in everyday life. Her background blends talking therapies with coaching and positive psychology ideas. That means sessions balance exploring past patterns with building hope and realistic goals for the future.
She pays attention to trauma and to how attachment and abandonment experiences show up now. Ingried supports people with a wide range of concerns, from addictions and sleep problems to body image and career stress. She values straightforward conversation, warmth, and steady pacing so change feels manageable.
Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans for people in the United Kingdom.
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What Ingried works with
The areas below are the ones Ingried 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Afrikaans |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the relationship in the room and on the client’s own goals. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people gain clarity, confidence and a sense of being understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is helpful for anxiety, low mood and stress where day-to-day thinking and behaviour get in the way.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about what feels most useful and adapt methods over time. That collaborative process means sessions can shift between listening, practical skill-building and setting small, achievable goals based on what the client needs.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who like writing as a way to reflect. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, family life and other commitments, and they support continuity when in-person meetings are not possible.
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