- Warm person-centred care
- Practical tools and skills
- Support for faith matters
About Ingried
Ingried Upingasana offers a calm, supportive presence for people dealing with money worries and other life stresses. She aims to help clients feel steadier, clearer and more able to make decisions that fit their values. Ingried uses warm listening and practical tools to help people take small steps toward feeling better.
She draws on five years of practice and holds a BACP credential, which she uses alongside her counselling and coaching education. Sessions include gentle person-centred listening alongside techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas also inform how she thinks about patterns and motivation.
Many clients bring worries about anxiety, low mood, trauma, relationship strain, self-esteem and addictions. She also supports people with issues around identity, intimacy, eating and sleeping, parenting pressures, career decisions and compassion fatigue. Financial and money-related stress is one of the practical concerns she helps people talk through and manage.
Ingried often works with themes such as abandonment, attachment struggles, control and communication problems. She also offers space for spiritual reflection when faith matters to the person seeking help. Her style is gentle, reflective and focused on building resilience and hope.
In sessions she mixes short-term, goal-focused techniques with deeper conversations about recurring patterns. The aim is to help people develop everyday habits that build Positive Psychological Capital - hope, optimism and self-belief - so challenges feel more manageable over time.
How approaches like CBT and Mindfulness work online
Ingried commonly uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT often involves setting small experiments and practical tasks that can be reviewed between sessions, which suits online conversations and homework-style follow-ups.She also draws on mindfulness practices to help people manage anxiety and distress through focused awareness and simple breathing or attention exercises. Mindfulness can be practised in short daily routines and then discussed during sessions to track what helps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and how they like to work, and then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as progress is made.
The original biography does not list specific online formats, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow more regular check-ins or short follow-ups when useful. It can also make it simpler to share worksheets and exercises between meetings so practical tools are easier to use in everyday life.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems can I bring to counselling?
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, self-esteem, trauma, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress and money-related worries.
How would you describe your therapeutic style?
Ingried combines person-centred listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people make small, manageable changes.
What experience does the counsellor have?
She has five years of practice experience and draws on counselling and coaching training alongside a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology.
Are you registered with any professional body and where are you based?
She is listed with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages can sessions be held in?
Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans.
What session formats are available?
The biography does not specify session formats; please confirm the current session options before booking.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with this counsellor?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.