About Ingried
Ingried Upingasana offers calm, steady support for people dealing with anxiety, phobias, low mood and stress. She meets clients with warmth and practical care. Sessions aim to help people feel more able to cope and to notice small changes that make daily life easier.
She draws on five years of experience and works from a person-centred outlook. That means conversations focus on what matters to the individual and on building trust before moving into practical tools.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness exercises are used to address unhelpful thoughts and reduce anxious reactions. In session she blends short-term goal work with deeper exploration of patterns that keep problems repeating. Motivational approaches support change when someone feels stuck.
Psychodynamic ideas help bring awareness to long-standing relational habits and attachment issues. Practical steps are mixed with simple psychological practices such as gratitude and small behaviour experiments. Where faith and spirituality matter, space is offered to reflect on those beliefs as part of the work.
She affirms people from LGBT communities and welcomes diverse backgrounds. Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans and take place online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Ingried holds the BACP credential, which is shown here as provided in her profile and indicates a professional membership in the United Kingdom.
People who want a gentle, realistic approach to change often look to her for steady support through life transitions, relationship strain, trauma recovery and difficulties with sleep, eating or addiction.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy puts what you want at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what she hears and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building trust and for people who want a compassionate, paced way to talk through worries.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Sessions include practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and small experiments to change behaviours that feed anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and focus.
Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The counsellor will work with you to choose methods that match your goals, preferences and the issues you bring. Sometimes a mix of approaches is used so work can be both short term and deeper over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different days and needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options help therapy fit around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans
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