Ingrid Koehler, BACP

Ingrid Koehler helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and grief. She is introduced here as a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with a BACP credential and 14 years of experience. Ingrid writes plainly and offers respectful, compassionate support to anyone seeking to make sense of painful life events.

Her sessions focus on listening to the story you bring and joining the dots together. She uses a mix of attachment-based ideas, emotion-focused work and trauma-aware techniques to understand how problems started and how they stay in place. Conversations aim to identify coping options you can try between sessions.

Ingrid draws on earlier experience in nursing, including cancer care and clinical trials, alongside many years in independent counselling practice. That background shapes a practical and steady approach when people are coping with illness, loss or major life change. She tailors the pace to each person’s comfort and readiness.

In therapy she encourages opening up to feelings that might be difficult to name, such as shame, rage, numbness or loneliness. Together with clients she looks for patterns in relationships, attachment difficulties and ways to rebuild trust in oneself and others. The goal is clearer thinking, more reliable coping, and a stronger sense of self-worth.

When trauma or abuse has left long-term effects she offers trauma-focused work alongside conversations about grief and recovery. Practical steps and emotional processing are mixed so people can regain confidence and move forward at a manageable pace.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships. It helps people recognise patterns of closeness and distance and build more secure ways of relating. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on the feelings behind relationship problems and aims to help people name and shift those emotional patterns. Trauma-Focused Therapy looks at the effects of single-event and developmental trauma and uses paced methods to process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The counsellor will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit the person’s needs, goals and comfort level. That may mean starting with talking and emotional exploration, then adding trauma-focused techniques if needed.

If you prefer remote sessions, check the available session options before booking to confirm how this counsellor currently meets online. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to keep meeting the same counsellor while living some distance away, with the practical aim of making therapy more manageable alongside everyday responsibilities.