About Ingrid
Ingrid Vasquez offers support to adults who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, life changes, or relationship worries. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck find clearer footing. Ingrid keeps the work straightforward and practical so conversations are easy to follow on a phone or during a short break.
In sessions she pulls from approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills and manage intense emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered and acceptance-focused ideas to help people notice values and move toward them. Creative expression such as drawing or writing is available for people who prefer nonverbal outlets. With ten years of clinical experience and a New Jersey LCSW license, Ingrid brings both hands-on practice and everyday language to sessions.
She aims to make each meeting a usable step forward rather than a lecture. The focus is on small changes that add up over time. She addresses concerns across stress, parenting and family strain, self-esteem, depression, anger, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include communication problems, body image, abandonment issues, isolation, and navigating sexuality and women’s issues. Sessions can include skill practice, gentle reflection, and goal-setting tailored to each person. Ingrid helps people find tools that fit their life and preferences, whether that means talking through thoughts, practicing grounding skills, or trying creative exercises.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and reconnect with what matters most. It often involves simple exercises to increase psychological flexibility and to take action toward chosen values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety or low mood and includes practical skill work for everyday situations. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills useful for managing intense feelings and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will explore a person’s goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before to recommend a path. That choice is collaborative and can shift over time based on what feels most effective.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing, flexible contact. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English