About Ingrid
Ingrid Wheeler is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Illinois who uses evidence-based methods to help people navigate emotional challenges and life changes.
Background and approach
She draws on 11 years of clinical experience to guide clients through concerns such as anxiety, depression, anger, and struggles with self-esteem, as well as addictions, grief, and career-related stress. Ingrid emphasizes practical skills alongside self-understanding so clients can build resilience and manage mood disorders, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice blends collaborative problem-solving with empathic listening to foster healthier patterns and more effective coping. Using approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, she helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts, practice emotion regulation, and create tangible plans for change.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are used when the focus is on enhancing motivation and setting realistic, short-term goals. In sessions she attends to relational and systemic factors, addressing family problems, communication challenges, caregiver stress, and financial or career concerns that affect wellbeing.
Clients connect with her in English through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, and her practice operates on a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Online Therapy Using Collaborative, Skill-Based Approaches
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, non-judgmental space where the client's perspective leads the work; this approach helps people clarify values, build self-understanding, and set goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, offering concrete techniques for intense emotional experiences and impulsivity.Choosing the right method is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist will collaborate with each person to determine which approaches fit best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative exploration may combine elements from different models so treatment stays focused and adaptable.
Online sessions allow the same therapeutic strategies to be delivered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility around work and family schedules and easing access for those who prefer remote care. Licensed professionals can use these formats to practice skills, set and review goals, and provide ongoing support while accommodating different communication styles and practical constraints.
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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