She studied sociology at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM, Mexico-City where she graduated with honours and received the Gabino Barreda Medal and also has a Master’s degree with Honours in Systemic Family Therapy and a Diploma in Systemic Couple Therapy from the Latin American Institute for Family Studies (ILEF) and Brief Therapy from the Mental Research Institute (MRI) of Palo Alto, California, USA.

She studied Gestalt Therapy, Enneagram and the Fischer-Hoffman process with Claudio Naranjo and is therapist in Core Energetics from the Institute of Core Energetics in New York with a postgraduate degree (Instituto Yollocalli, Mexico-City) and collaborated with the creator of this training, Dr. John Pierrakos, in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico.

She was certified as a Family Constellation Therapist by Bert Hellinger and Lorenz Wiest,  and as Master Trainer by Infosyon (International Forum for Systemic Constellations), Germany, and has also trained in Biología-Cultural with Dr. Humberto Maturana from Chile.

Ingala is director of the Therapeutica Institute SOWELU and dean of its university.

She made her PhD at the Regional Institute of the Family / IREFAM, Chihuahua/Mexico with a thesis centering on Systemic FamilyTherapy and Family Constellations specializing on symptoms and health.

4 books of hers have been published by Penguin/Random House.

Ingala loves teaching and giving conferences on a national and international scale.