Dr Ingrid Bacon

Dr Ingrid Bacon is a psychological coach with more than 30 years of experience across clinical, academic, and organisational settings in the UK, Portugal, Brazil, and internationally. Fluent in English and Portuguese.

Ingrid works with adults navigating pressure, transition, and complex relational demands, including senior leaders and executives, clinicians and academics, and individuals experiencing burnout, career change, relationship challenges, or questions of identity and direction. As an ILM Level 7 qualified Executive and Senior Level Coach and Mentor, she combines evidence-based psychological practice with advanced training in Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Systemic Family Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.
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Her approach supports clients in addressing immediate goals while understanding and reshaping the deeper emotional and relational patterns that influence their decisions, responsibilities, and relationships. Arising from clinical practice and extensive research and publication, she has particular expertise in codependency, enmeshment, over-responsibility, boundary difficulties, and the challenge of maintaining a strong sense of self under sustained personal or professional demands.
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Ingrid’s career has included work in addiction services in Rio de Janeiro, forensic and inpatient mental health settings in the UK, and community-based practice. Her doctoral and ongoing research into codependency and enmeshment has been published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction and presented internationally, including as a keynote speaker at the International Schema Therapy Society Congress.

Clients describe Ingrid as warm, insightful, and highly attuned, while also offering thoughtful challenge and clarity. She is known for helping people identify what lies beneath the surface of persistent difficulties and translating that understanding into meaningful, lasting change.

Alongside her coaching and consultancy work, Ingrid maintains an active research and publication profile, supervises doctoral researchers internationally, and contributes to discussions on mental health, relationships, and behavioural wellbeing. Her expertise has been featured in The New York Times, TIME, Forbes, and Men’s Health. She receives regular professional supervision and remains committed to ongoing learning and development.

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