Ingried Upingasana, BACP

Ingried Upingasana is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who aims to help people manage everyday pressures and difficult thoughts. She draws on five years of practice to offer calm, practical guidance for issues like anxiety, low mood, stress, and relationship strain. Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans and reflect a warm, non-judgemental stance.

She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. That can include talking through unhelpful thought patterns with cognitive behavioural ideas, bringing mindful practices into daily routines, and focusing on strengths and small changes that make life easier. She often works on self-belief, resilience, and hope so people feel steadier between sessions.

Her background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Counselling and Coaching and a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. She also holds BACP registration, which is noted as a professional credential. This training supports a practical, person-focused way of working rather than a one-size-fits-all method.

She offers a space where spirituality can be part of conversations when this matters, and she affirms people from LGBTQ+ communities. Areas she commonly addresses include trauma and abuse, parenting strain, eating and sleeping difficulties, addictions, ADHD, and identity or intimacy-related concerns.

In sessions she aims to combine compassion with concrete tools - breathing and mindfulness practices, behavioural experiments, and short-term goal work - to help people build more helpful habits and clearer thinking over time.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on being heard and understood. It means the counsellor listens without judgement, reflects what matters to you, and supports you to make your own choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect; it uses small experiments and practical tasks to change unhelpful habits and reduce anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of how she works. The counsellor will talk with you about your goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adapt tools so they fit your everyday life and what you want to change.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available online options before booking. Many people find online or remote sessions helpful because they can fit appointments around work, minimise travel time, and use shorter check-ins when needed. Online sessions can also make it easier to practise mindfulness or homework between meetings and to bring real-life examples into sessions for problem-solving.