Counsellor profile
Ingrid Koehler, BACP
Counsellor for relationships and trauma
See online counselling options- Stress and anxiety
- Attachment focus
- Trauma work
About Ingrid
Counsellor Ingrid Koehler is a BACP member with 14 years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She helps people with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and issues around intimacy and self‑esteem. Ingrid also supports people dealing with eating concerns, anger, depression and coping with life changes.
She adopts a conversational, person-centred style. Sessions focus on listening to your story and making sense of what has happened. Conversations aim to identify coping steps and practical ways to manage distress. Ingrid encourages people to name difficult feelings such as shame, guilt, anger or numbness so they can be addressed.
Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how relationships shape feelings and behaviour. Trauma-focused work is used where past harm continues to affect daily life. Existential perspectives are brought in to consider meaning, choices and purpose when people face life changes.
Ingrid has a background in nursing, having worked in cancer care and clinical trials within the NHS before moving to private counselling since 2011. That clinical experience informs her approach to clients facing serious illness or complex loss.
Sessions are conversational and paced to each person. Ingrid aims to be straightforward and respectful when looking at difficult topics such as abandonment, attachment issues, domestic violence, infidelity, codependency or dissociation. She also works with the emotional impact of divorce, separation and chronic health problems.
People can expect a practical focus on understanding patterns, improving communication and rebuilding self‑esteem. When helpful, she will suggest ways to practice new responses between sessions and to track small changes over time.
How Ingrid uses relational and trauma approaches online
Ingrid commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to work through relationship and relational trauma issues. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and patterns; it helps with communication, trust and repeated relationship problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on the emotions under conflict and helps people name and respond to those feelings in clearer ways.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy when past harm continues to affect daily life. This approach looks at how traumatic events have changed thinking, reactions and bodily responses, and supports step-by-step processing so everyday functioning improves. Choosing which combination to use is part of the work together. Ingrid discusses goals and preferences and helps decide the best way forward in collaboration with each client.
Confirm the exact session formats when you book, as current options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel, or have shorter check-ins that suit work breaks. It can also allow sessions when someone is based abroad, subject to time differences. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt conversation, pacing and exercises to suit telephone or video formats depending on what the client prefers.
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Experience
14+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with most often?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues, eating concerns, anger and low self‑esteem among other difficulties.
What style of therapy does she use?
She uses a conversational, person-centred style and draws on attachment-based work, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and trauma-focused approaches to understand feelings and relationships.
How much experience does she have?
She has 14 years of professional experience working as a counsellor in the United Kingdom, and has worked in private practice since 2011.
Which professional body is she a member of?
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can she work with people outside the UK?
She accepts international clients; check time zones and any local requirements when arranging sessions.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to start?
Select the See online counselling options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
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