Ingrid Koehler, BACP

Ingrid Koehler is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues and codependency. Ingrid also supports those dealing with anger, low self-esteem, eating issues, depression and the practical strain of life changes.

She begins by listening to a person's story and noticing patterns that keep causing pain. Sessions focus on naming feelings, making sense of troubling events and testing ways of coping. She often helps people see how past relationship experiences affect how they behave now and how they manage closeness and trust.

Ingrid uses approaches that look at attachment and emotions, and she brings a trauma-aware perspective to painful memories. She encourages exploring emotion so people can feel what has been shut down or overwhelming. That can include working with shame, guilt, anger, numbness or the confused mix of feelings that follow loss or betrayal.

Her background includes many years in nursing within cancer and cancer clinical trials before moving into private counselling work from 2011. That experience informs how she responds to people who have been through illness, bereavement or long-term stress. She works with individuals and with couples.

Practical steps in sessions include tracking patterns in relationships, strengthening coping strategies and finding small, workable changes. People who keep putting others first, who struggle to say no, or who live with someone else's moods or crises may find these sessions especially relevant.

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