Counsellor profile
Ingrid Koehler, BACP
BACP counsellor focused on relationships and trauma
Continue with IngridAbout
- Attachment-based work
- Emotion-focused therapy
- Trauma-informed care
About Ingrid
Ingrid Koehler is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, family concerns, intimacy issues and related problems. Ingrid also works with anger, low self-esteem, eating issues, depression, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes.
She draws on approaches that emphasise emotional connection and attachment. Sessions are conversational and focused on the problems a person brings. Ingrid listens to the story you bring, then looks at practical ways to cope and make sense of what has happened.
Her background includes many years working in nursing in cancer care and clinical trials before moving into counselling practice. That clinical experience shapes how she responds to people facing serious illness, loss and life disruption.
In the room she encourages gentle attention to feeling and to relationships. This can mean naming painful feelings such as shame, guilt, anger or numbness and looking at how they affect behaviour and relationships. Work often involves exploring early attachment, abandonment or codependency patterns and how these show up now.
Ingrid uses trauma-focused methods when needed to address both single-event trauma and long-term developmental trauma. She helps people process loss, betrayal, infidelity, domestic violence and the ripple effects of those experiences. The practical aim is clearer understanding, steadier coping and restored self-belief.
People who choose her often want a calm, reflective space to think things through and to practise different ways of relating. She accepts clients from the UK and internationally and offers online options; confirm the current session formats before booking.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online counselling
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and behaviour. Online sessions can look at patterns such as abandonment, codependency and attachment wounds, helping people understand why they react the way they do in close relationships.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on moments of strong feeling and how those feelings shape interactions. In practice this means identifying and naming emotions like hurt, shame or anger, and then practising different responses to improve connection and reduce conflict.
She will work with the client to decide which approach or combination will help most. Figuring out the right method is a collaborative process and may change as therapy progresses. The therapist will check goals and adjust the focus based on how the client responds.
The biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited and remove the need to be on camera for every meeting. Registered or accredited professionals often find that these practical advantages help people keep continuity with their therapy and make steady progress.
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Experience
14+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of relationship issues does she help with?
She helps with relationship difficulties such as communication problems, infidelity, commitment issues and the fallout from separation or divorce.
How would she work with anxiety or stress?
Sessions are conversational and explore what triggers anxiety or stress, then look at coping strategies and ways to reduce overwhelm.
What is her professional background?
She has 14 years' experience and previously worked in nursing within cancer care and clinical trials before practising as a counsellor.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is based in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients; please check session formats and scheduling when you start the process.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify exact session formats. Please confirm current online or in-person options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Fees vary by location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.