About Ingried
Ingried Upingasana is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety and everyday worries. She speaks English and Afrikaans and works with adults across a wide range of life challenges. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk things through and find practical ways forward.
Her work focuses on building hope, resilience and clearer self-belief. She uses straightforward tools to help with low mood, anxiety, sleep and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction concerns, body image and career or parenting pressures. Ingried draws on several evidence-informed approaches and adapts them to each person.
That can mean looking at thoughts and behaviours with cognitive behavioural ideas, using mindfulness to ease tense moments, or taking a client-centred stance that follows what matters most to the person in front of her. She holds BACP, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings five years of practice experience.
Her background also includes coaching and positive psychology ideas to help people reconnect with purpose and small daily habits that build wellbeing. Sessions can include brief practical exercises, guided reflection and collaborative goal-setting. The aim is to leave each session with something useful to try between meetings, and to adjust the plan as progress and priorities change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following what the person brings to the session. It helps when someone needs to feel understood and to explore what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives short practical exercises for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that suit their goals and preferences. This might mean starting with simple CBT techniques, adding mindfulness practices, or spending sessions building self-belief and hope through client-centred conversation and coaching ideas.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging supports regular check-ins and short reflections. These options give flexibility to work around work, family and travel commitments while keeping momentum between meetings.
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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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