About Ruth
Ruth Dixon is a counsellor who works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She draws on two decades of experience in the United Kingdom to help people manage difficult emotions and life changes. She offers a calm space to talk about problems like depression, low self esteem, grief and relationship worries.
Ruth also supports people facing addictions, anger, sleeping and eating concerns, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions. Ruth uses psychodynamic therapy to look at patterns that repeat in relationships and in how people cope. That approach helps people understand where strong feelings come from and how past experiences affect current behaviour.
Sessions mix listening with gentle questioning to uncover unhelpful patterns. She adapts the work to what each person needs and plans sessions around individual goals. Ruth aims to help clients build clearer self-awareness and better ways of coping with stress and change.
She treats people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Ruth holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP in her credentials. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different routines and preferences.
Psychodynamic approaches and online therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on how early experiences and recurring patterns shape feelings and behaviour. It often involves talking about relationships and emotions to uncover repeated ways of reacting. This can be helpful for anxiety, relationship issues, grief and long standing patterns that feel hard to change.In practice Ruth helps people explore what's happening beneath their immediate worries and links those insights to everyday coping. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will work with each person to agree what methods and goals feel most useful and to adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging so people can fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from another location, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a short break, live chat is useful for brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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