Ingried Upingasana, BACP

Ingried Upingasana offers calm, steady support for people facing jealousy, relationship strain, anxiety and related worries. She introduces simple, practical steps first. Sessions aim to help a person feel heard while working toward clearer choices and steadier emotion. Ingried works in English and Afrikaans and brings five years of clinical experience to her work.

She uses a blend of client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness practices. Sessions often focus on spotting unhelpful thought patterns, testing small behaviour changes and building everyday coping skills. Conversations can also cover past hurts, attachment patterns and how those affect current relationships.

Ingried describes her style as warm, compassionate and faith-sensitive. Where faith matters, she offers space for spiritual reflection alongside psychological tools. She also pays attention to trauma and safety, and adapts pace so people do not feel overwhelmed.

Practical aims include strengthening self-belief, building resilience and finding ways to manage anger, stress, sleep and compulsive habits. Work may include simple experiments between sessions, breathing and grounding exercises, and shifts in everyday routines.

She holds BACP, which is listed as a professional credential. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people select the continue button on this profile and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling according to therapist availability.

How these approaches work online and what to expect

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening with warmth and respect. It helps people feel understood and safer to talk about jealousy, relationships and self-doubt. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It helps spot unhelpful thinking and try simple behaviour experiments to reduce anxiety and compulsive responses.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to test methods and adapt what is used as goals and preferences become clearer. That means sessions can change over time from more listening to practical skill-building when that feels helpful.

The original profile does not list which online formats are offered. Please confirm the available session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives - they can be shorter check-ins, allow sessions during a lunch break or remove travel time. Some people prefer video for face-to-face conversation, while others choose audio only when they need less bandwidth or a quieter setup. Registered or accredited professionals often use a range of approaches to help people manage stress, relationship problems and emotional spikes in everyday life.