About Ingrid
Ingrid Gallimore is a Florida licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She writes in a direct, approachable way and focuses on practical steps that people can use between sessions.
Ingrid aims to make the first move toward therapy feel less overwhelming for someone thinking about reaching out. In sessions she creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Conversations cover immediate worries and longer-term patterns that keep problems repeating. She supports people as they try new ways of handling conflict, strong emotions, and life transitions. Her work often addresses related concerns such as abandonment fears, commitment struggles, communication problems, control issues, and impulsivity.
She also helps with complex topics like divorce and separation, dissociation, domestic violence, grief around end-of-life care, and immigration stress. Ingrid adapts the pace to each person and pays attention to what feels manageable in real life. Sessions can include focused problem solving, practicing new behaviors, and naming emotions so they feel less overwhelming.
She encourages small, concrete changes that add up over time. Ingrid also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, or the effects of trauma as they rebuild safety and trust in daily life. People meet her in Florida and she uses a straightforward style that balances empathy and practical guidance.
Conversations happen in English and are aimed at helping clients move toward clearer choices and steadier routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Ingrid uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on skills people can use right away. One common approach helps people learn to identify and name their emotions so they become easier to manage; this can reduce the intensity of anxiety and improve decision-making. Another approach emphasizes building new behavior patterns through small, repeated steps - that method helps with low motivation, impulsivity, and relationship habits that keep causing conflict.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about immediate goals, daily routines, and what feels achievable, then adapt methods to fit those needs. Clients and the therapist check in about progress and change course when something isn't working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between longer appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and respond to needs as they arise.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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