Ingrid Koehler , BACP

Ingrid Koehler is a UK-based counsellor with 14 years of professional experience who works with individuals and couples to address stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, family and intimacy concerns, eating and anger issues, self-esteem and depression, and coping with life changes. She is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and brings a respectful, sensitive and compassionate stance to every therapeutic relationship.

Ingrid tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person's unique needs, helping clients make sense of painful or confusing experiences and to join the dots between past and present. She frames the counsellor's role as a witness and mirror that can illuminate patterns, support new understanding and offer relief from feelings such as guilt, shame, numbness or overwhelming emotion. Her work encourages the exploration of emotion and the strengthening of inner resources and coping strategies.

Her approach begins by exploring a client’s story with compassion and curiosity, then collaboratively finding practical ways to cope and move forward while respecting each person’s level of comfort. Ingrid recognises the lasting impact of both single-event trauma and prolonged developmental hurt, and she supports people processing grief, loss or the complex effects of long-term stress. She has a background in nursing in the NHS, including work in cancer care and cancer clinical trials, though she is now retired from nursing, and she has worked in private counselling practice since 2011.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust; it helps people explore attachment styles, abandonment or separation concerns, and how those patterns affect present relationships. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on identifying and restructuring emotional responses in relationships so people can build healthier bonds and address intimacy-related issues. Trauma-Focused Therapy works directly with the impact of single-event trauma and complex developmental trauma, offering ways to process painful memories and reduce the influence of past harm on daily life.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is best decided collaboratively. Ingrid will listen to a client’s history, goals and preferences and help determine which methods are likely to be the best fit, adjusting the plan as needed to match progress and emerging needs.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or geographic limitations. For many people, remote sessions increase accessibility and make it simpler to maintain regular contact with a therapist while working toward clearer understanding and improved coping.