About Ruth
Ruth MacBain is a licensed counselor with eleven years of clinical experience. She holds a Master-level qualification and practices in New Hampshire as an LCPC and LCMHC. Ruth often works with people facing anxiety and stress and helps them find practical ways to manage daily life.
She has a strong background in substance use work and residential treatment. That experience informs how she supports people coping with addictions and co-occurring issues.
Background and approach
She also brings familiarity with trauma, grief, and compassion fatigue to sessions. Ruth uses a collaborative, straightforward style. Sessions focus on concrete skills and clear steps people can try between meetings.
She combines client-centered listening with evidence-informed techniques to address thinking patterns and emotional regulation. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Jungian ideas to tailor care to each person. That mix helps with mood, coping after loss, relationship concerns, and challenges tied to attachment and abandonment.
Outside of work she volunteers with adaptive sports and supports people with autism and disabilities. She enjoys hiking, biking, and swimming and brings a calm, down-to-earth presence into sessions. People who want practical strategies and a collaborative partner may find her style fits well.
Approaches that fit online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship, which helps people feel heard and understood when speaking by video or phone. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches clear skills to change thinking patterns and behaviors, making it easy to practice exercises during or between online sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance, useful for managing intense feelings from home or on the go.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences, and then blend approaches to match what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter updates or ongoing connection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Maine
- Languages
- English
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