Ina Thomson, BACP

Ina Thomson supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, relationship tensions and the fallout of trauma. She also helps with parenting strains, eating concerns, anger and the challenge of life changes. Ina offers a calm listening space and practical ways to manage symptoms. Ina works from a humanistic outlook that respects each person’s strengths and capacity to change. She combines focused conversation with tools drawn from cognitive approaches to challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Sessions can be gentle and exploratory or more structured and goal-focused, depending on what the client needs. Her work pays attention to how the body responds to stress. She helps clients spot triggers and link strong reactions to past overwhelming experiences. This often includes simple strategies to ease nervous system activation and reduce the intensity of panic or shutdown moments. Ina has three years of professional experience as a therapist and holds BACP, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She conducts sessions in English and German. People who value careful listening and practical steps will find her approach accessible. She tailors conversations to each person, balancing empathy with concrete skills for coping. If you want to talk through what’s been hard and try tools that fit your life, Ina offers a straightforward, supportive way forward.

Approaches that help online and in conversation

Ina uses humanistic work that focuses on each person’s strengths and capacity to change. This approach involves open, respectful listening and helps people build a clearer sense of purpose and self-compassion. She also draws on cognitive techniques to spot and challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Those techniques are practical and can reduce anxiety, panic symptoms and low mood by teaching different ways of thinking and acting. Ina pays attention to how the nervous system reacts to stress and trauma. She helps clients identify triggers and offers simple regulation strategies to lessen intense reactions and manage overwhelm. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences and how symptoms show up, then suggest ways of working. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made. Please confirm the current session formats before booking, as the biography does not specify exact online or in-person options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a client. It can also make it easier to work from a familiar setting or to avoid needing to be on camera for every session, depending on what the therapist offers.