About Ingrid
Ingrid Wells is an AASW social worker with 30 years' experience supporting people facing anxiety, stress and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and listens closely, helping clients untangle what matters most and find manageable steps forward. Her work pays close attention to trauma and its effects.
Ingrid draws on approaches such as Emotionally Focused Therapy and Internal Family Systems alongside strengths-based methods. She shapes sessions around each person's pace and capacity rather than a fixed timetable.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on practical skills for coping with anxious moments and improving communication in relationships. Ingrid also helps people address family problems, attachment concerns, codependency and the long-term effects of abuse or sexual assault. She supports parents and those dealing with cancer-related issues or grief.
Her style is compassionate and respectful. Ingrid aims to create a room where people feel heard and where old patterns can be named and tested safely. Conversations move from understanding patterns to trying small, real changes.
People considering therapy are invited to start with a clear discussion of goals. Over time the work combines emotion-focused conversations, internal system mapping and strengths-based tasks to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Ingrid explains options and helps people choose what fits their situation.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Ingrid uses Emotionally Focused Therapy to help people name and work with strong emotions in relationships. This approach focuses on noticing emotional responses and changing interaction patterns that fuel anxiety or conflict.She also draws on Internal Family Systems to map inner parts and their roles. That method helps people understand conflicting urges, reduce self-criticism and build kinder internal relationships. Strengths-based counselling is used alongside these methods to identify what is already working and to build practical coping steps.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ingrid discusses goals and preferences and adapts the techniques that fit each person's needs. Together they try options and adjust the plan as progress and new issues emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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