Ingrid Koehler

Ingrid Koehler is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger and relationship problems. She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, intimacy-related issues and low self-esteem. Ingrid writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters to each person.

She has 14 years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Ingrid draws on her background in nursing and many years working around cancer care to understand how health and life events can affect mood and relationships.

In sessions she aims to understand a person’s story and then work out practical ways to cope. Conversations explore feelings, patterns in relationships and how life events have shaped current struggles. She encourages naming emotions such as rage, shame, guilt or numbness so they can be understood rather than acted on.

Her style is collaborative and respectful. Ingrid adapts the pace to each person and balances emotional exploration with practical coping ideas. People often talk through boundaries, communication problems, grief, and the after-effects of abuse or long-term neglect.

Over time she helps people rebuild self-worth and trust in themselves. Work can include looking at attachment patterns, how trauma has affected thinking and relationships, and practical steps to feel more steady day to day.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Ingrid works from attachment-based and emotionally-focused ways of working that help make sense of difficult feelings and relationship patterns. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships influence how people connect now and can help when trust, abandonment or clinginess are a problem. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the moment-to-moment experience of emotion in relationships and helps people recognise and change patterns that lead to repeated conflict or distance.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will decide which way of working feels most helpful. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the exact session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people meet a counsellor who understands the impact of trauma, grief or chronic illness without geographic limits. Registered or accredited professionals, including therapists here, can discuss practical arrangements and help you decide what will work best for your situation.