Ingrid Middleton LCSW, MSW, MA, MS is a licensed clinical social worker, anthropologist, yoga and mindfulness instructor with 15 years of treating individuals, couples and families strugglIng with eating disorders, sports performance anxiety, trauma, stress, and depression.
She graduated from Washington University with her Master’s in social work, Webster University with a Master’s in art and University of Utah with a Master’s in anthropology. She taught somatic integration across the United States after her book “The Secret of Healing by Touch” (Austin Macaulay, NY) came out in March of 2020 and uses insight, kindness, compassion, understanding, structural frameworks and self -expression to help clients learn how to self actualize and discover their unique gifts and potential. She has worked in the medical social work field and supervised a hospital team in Kauai and went on to crisis response work in Oahu from 2007 to 2018.
Ingrid is passionate about helping others and sees therapy as an anthropologists in the field might approach an archaeological site; when we start the discovery we never know what we can find and become!
For those who have suffered from shame, loss and isolation, Ingrid helps to liberate from suffering and tailors each session to cultivate and listen to the unique needs of each client. She supervises new therapists working toward state licensure and uses psychoanalytic approaches combined with cognitive behavioral therapy. She leads groups for women with body image and self esteem issues, couples healing workshops and mindful meditation and yoga. As a trauma therapist she can help you find safe places again inside your body which is the core of all balance.