About Ruth
Ruth Hickmon is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor who helps people who are struggling with stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing depression, trauma and grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and major life changes. She writes in plain terms and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone under pressure.
Ruth works in a warm, client-centered way that focuses on each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps people set small goals they can act on. Sessions include practical tools for coping and skills to reduce panic, manage overwhelming thoughts, and improve communication. She draws from cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Mindfulness practices are used to calm the body and attention. For relationship issues she uses techniques from the Gottman Method to strengthen connection and communication. Ruth’s style is collaborative and straightforward.
She uses motivational interviewing to help people find their reasons to change. Her approach favors short-term problem solving alongside deeper self-understanding when that is helpful. With six years of clinical experience as an LMHC, Ruth has provided care in Florida settings.
She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. People who want to begin can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session through the platform.
How her methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s lead, asks questions that matter to them, and helps set goals that feel relevant to daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice patterns of thinking that increase anxiety and then practice steps to change those patterns; it is useful for panic, worry, and low mood and often involves homework between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ruth will discuss options and try methods that match a person’s goals and preferences. She treats therapy as a collaborative process and adjusts techniques based on what’s working and what isn’t.
Online therapy lets people fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is an issue or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a written format helps someone process thoughts. These formats make it easier to access support from different locations and schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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