Ingrid Koehler, BACP

Ingrid Koehler is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 14 years of professional experience. She focuses on issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and living with health challenges. Ingrid aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion while tailoring conversations to each person’s needs.

She approaches counselling by first listening to a person's story and then looking at practical ways to cope. Sessions are intended to help people make sense of painful events and to notice patterns in feelings and behaviour. Ingrid encourages expressing emotions so that feelings like anger, shame or numbness can be understood and worked with.

Her background includes many years working in nursing within the NHS, specialising in cancer and cancer clinical trials, before focusing on counselling in private practice from 2011. That clinical experience informs her awareness of how physical illness and long-term health problems can affect mood and relationships.

In therapy she uses methods that draw on attachment, emotions and trauma, and she aims to come alongside clients at their own pace. The work often explores how past hurt, loss or abandonment can shape current difficulties and relationship patterns.

People are invited to look at how they manage day-to-day challenges and to build greater self-trust. Conversations are intended to uncover practical coping steps, strengthen self-worth, and help people move through grief, confusion or overwhelm toward clearer direction.

How her approaches translate to online counselling

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and closeness. This approach can help when relationship struggles, abandonment or attachment issues feel overwhelming and you want clearer ways to connect or set boundaries.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on identifying and processing strong emotions in the room. It helps people name what they feel, see how that feeling shapes behaviour, and practise different responses in relationships and stressful situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. The counsellor will talk with each person about their needs, goals and what feels most helpful, then decide together which methods to use. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as the work progresses.

If you are considering online work, please confirm the session formats available before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. They can also help people who are coping with health conditions to access counselling without additional journeys. Registered or accredited professionals aim to adapt their methods so emotional processing and attachment work still take place effectively over distance.