About Ruth
Ruth Landis is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with adults who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anger, or compassion fatigue. Ruth writes treatment plans that fit each person's situation and talks through goals in a straightforward way.
She treats others with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. In sessions she listens closely and helps people identify what they want to change.
Background and approach
She focuses on practical steps people can take between meetings to feel steadier and more able to cope. Ruth adapts her approach to meet each person’s needs. That can mean focusing on managing strong emotions, repairing trust in relationships, or reducing overwhelming worry.
She helps people sort through control issues, guilt and shame, and problems that show up during midlife or caregiving roles. Her background includes two decades of work in Louisiana settings that addressed mood disorders and post-traumatic stress. That experience informs hands-on strategies for dealing with distress.
Ruth aims to empower clients to make manageable changes and build routines that support recovery. People who reach out can expect calm, direct conversation and a plan shaped to their goals. She offers a mix of short-term coping tools and longer-term work on patterns like attachment or recurring anger.
Ruth helps people take the next steps toward feeling more capable and in charge of their lives.
Approaches that help online and in session
Ruth uses evidence-based techniques focused on managing strong emotions and reducing anxiety. One common approach emphasizes learning specific skills for calming the body and changing unhelpful thinking patterns; this helps when worry or panic get in the way of daily life. Another strand of work focuses on processing trauma and abuse through gradual, paced talk and coping exercises that reduce reactivity and build a sense of safety in everyday routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. Ruth will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest a plan to try. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods so the work stays useful and realistic for the person’s life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when they want a fuller interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates, journaling between sessions, or a way to share progress without scheduling a full call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and changing routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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