About Ingrid
Ingrid Wheeler is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered therapy. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and major life changes. Ingrid aims to make therapy direct and usable so clients can try new coping skills between sessions.
She frames sessions around clear goals. Conversations look at patterns that keep problems going and small steps to change them. Ingrid draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on solution-focused methods to build immediate strategies.
Background and approach
Longer-term concerns like mood disorders, bipolar issues, addictions, and compassion fatigue are also addressed with a mix of skills training and motivational interviewing. Sessions often include concrete tools for managing impulses, improving communication, and stabilizing mood. Ingrid has 11 years of clinical experience and holds an Illinois LCSW license, IL LCSW 149.017207.
Her background gives her familiarity with a broad range of life and work stressors, caregiving strain, and grief-related problems. People who come to her can expect a respectful, straightforward style. She works collaboratively to set priorities and track progress.
The focus is on building resilience and practical routines that fit daily life.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and building a respectful, non-judgmental relationship. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and to explore what matters to them before choosing specific skills or goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach concrete tools to challenge negative thinking and to try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depression over time.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when impulse control and communication are ongoing challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ingrid will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods and adjust them as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging lets people check in between appointments or use shorter, focused exchanges during a break. These options increase flexibility, helping people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English