About Ruth
Ruth Fitzgerald is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She makes space for someone to talk at their own pace and aims to help people feel more able to cope with life’s challenges. Ruth uses a calm, compassionate manner and keeps sessions non-judgemental.
She explains difficulties in plain terms and looks with clients at what lies behind recurring problems. Together they identify patterns of behaviour that cause distress and consider practical ways to respond differently.
Background and approach
The work often uncovers feelings and memories that have been pushed out of awareness, and Ruth helps people bring those into view so they can be understood. Ruth draws on nine years of experience and works from a psychodynamic background. This means she pays attention to how past relationships and experiences influence present feelings and choices.
The aim is to help people gain clearer self-understanding and more freedom to choose different ways of living. In sessions she combines listening with gentle reflection, helping people see links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. That insight then becomes the basis for trying new approaches day to day.
The emphasis is on steady, lasting change rather than quick fixes. People come to her for many concerns including anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship difficulties, grief and coping with life changes. She also supports those facing issues such as chronic illness, caregiving stress and body image worries.
Ruth works in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
How Ruth’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current emotional responses and close connections. Online work with this approach helps people notice patterns in their relationships and develop new ways of relating to others.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the sessions and uses empathic listening to help people find their own solutions. It suits people who want a steady, supportive space to talk and gain clarity about their goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. In an online setting CBT can provide straightforward tools to manage anxiety, mood and everyday coping.
Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest ways to proceed. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by registered or accredited professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when useful, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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