Coach Ingrid has decades of training to better guide you.
Coach Ingrid has decades of experience supporting clients who long to overcome alcohol and substance use disorders and other compulsive tendencies. Adept at principles of the 12-Steps, as well as the “Mud and Lotus” mindfulness approach, she forges the kind of close, meaningful relationship essential to maintaining a fulfilling, sober life. Integrating calming techniques to regulate cravings, awareness of values/needs, and heart-centered communication, she tailors a recovery plan personalized to individual and family needs and aligns with organizations including Malibu Sober Living and other recovery centers.
Are worry and anxiety hijacking your peace of mind and quality of life? Do you struggle to handle overwhelm, or feel exhausted enough that you’ve shut down? Coach Ingrid specializes in practical, somatically based tools for recovering from trauma and other dysregulating experiences. Integrating Parts Work and the Polyvagal Approach to nervous system regulation developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, she will create a roadmap to transform despair, shame, and worry into a life of peace and resilience.
Grief counseling creates space to process loss at your own pace. Whether you’re mourning a loved one (be it a beloved person or pet), the pain of divorce/relationship breakdown, job loss, or a life-altering experience, Coach Ingrid helps you find beauty and significance in the cycles of death and rebirth. A lifelong animal rescuer, Ingrid has assisted at the passings of many animal companions as well as dearly-loved humans. Using heart-centered practices, healing conversations, and personalized rituals, she specializes in preparing dying persons and their loved ones for meaningful death, and assists in processing painful, at times overwhelming, emotions.
As a Communication Coach, Ingrid Skoog delivers practical, transformational tools for enhancing both listening and expression in interpersonal relationships as well as in professional settings. Besides upleveling conversations, Coach Ingrid builds deeper understanding through awareness of body language, safety cues, and co-regulation. She provides a 4-step process for streamlining heart-based communication and helps couples, individuals, and teams discover the language of feelings and needs.
Coach Ingrid is a certified practitioner of the Living Inquiries Approach to personal growth and healing. Through L.I. and mindfulness techniques, she teaches clients how to anchor spiraling thoughts, anxiety, dread, and performance anxiety (including ED), into the freedom of full presence and peace. Attuning to the guideposts of their own senses: memories, visions, and felt sensations, clients will uncover inner wisdom, calm, and the answers already within.
Perhaps you’re wondering whether a therapeutic experience “beyond words” might offer you deeper comfort and insight? Many clients find energy healing, by itself or in conjunction with other somatic practices and grounding conversations, can offer profound relief from physical and emotional pain. Coach Ingrid has been a practitioner of Energy Healing since 1999, when she earned her Reiki Mastership. Reiki involves hands directly touching or slightly above the body and can be paired with personal affirmations, essential oils, and sound healing. Let Coach Ingrid design a healing experience tailored to your bodyspirit, needs, and comfortability.
Sometimes reconnecting one thing reconnects everything… Coach Ingrid provides skills and support to identify triggers, learn effective coping strategies, and improve overall health. She offers healing conversations and somatic approaches to transform debilitating, depressive, and stuck emotions into freedom and motivation. Discover what purpose your pain is here to serve.
