About Ruth
Ruth Frances is a BACP counsellor with five years' practical experience. She offers one-to-one work and supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and bereavement. Ruth aims to create a warm and trusting space so people can talk about painful or difficult topics without judgement.
Her background includes work with bereavement and cancer support services, where she completed additional training and continued professional development. That experience shaped her approach to talking about loss, illness and the impact these have on daily life.
Background and approach
Ruth uses a mix of client-centred methods and cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping. She also draws on attachment-based thinking to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. Mindfulness and existential perspectives are used when people want to focus on meaning, values or being present.
Sessions can be short term or longer, depending on what someone wants. Ruth offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their routine. Sessions form part of a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability.
Sessions are offered in English and Ruth works with people in the United Kingdom. International clients are not accepted. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Approaches that translate to online counselling
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person rather than labels. It involves listening carefully and reflecting what is said so people feel understood and can make their own choices. This approach helps when someone needs a calm, steady space to talk through worries and decisions.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It involves noticing patterns, trying small experiments and learning practical tools to reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT can be very useful for stress, anxiety and sleep problems because it gives clear steps to try between sessions.
Attachment-based ideas examine how past relationships influence current responses and closeness with others. This can help people who notice repeating patterns in relationships or who struggle with trust and intimacy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will help clients decide together which methods suit their goals and preferences, and she adapts what happens in sessions as therapy progresses. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits short check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or health commitments while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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