About Ruth
Ruth Richards is a counsellor with sixteen years of experience supporting people through difficult times. She focuses on listening first and understanding each person's story. Ruth aims to make sessions a calm space where someone can talk without feeling judged.
Ruth helps people who are coping with stress and anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and life transitions. She also works with issues such as parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
ADHD, adoption and attachment concerns are among other areas she addresses. Her style is down-to-earth and practical. Sessions are paced to suit the individual, and she adapts her approach to what the person needs that day.
Ruth uses methods that encourage people to notice what matters to them and to build small skills that fit into their daily life. She offers both short-term and longer-term counselling, depending on personal goals. Early sessions focus on building a trusting relationship and identifying the patterns that keep problems going.
Later work moves towards setting practical goals and trying out new ways of coping. Ruth describes integrative counselling as blending useful ideas from different approaches. The aim is to help mind and body work together, to reduce distress and to help someone move towards a more satisfying life.
She will invite commitment to self-reflection and practical steps, while supporting each person at their own pace.
How Ruth uses evidence-informed approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify personal values and take actions that match those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and trying practical strategies to change them; it is often used for anxiety, low mood and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people try new ways of relating and managing emotions when relationships feel difficult.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will suggest approaches that fit those aims. She treats this as a collaborative process and checks in as therapy progresses to adjust methods and pace.
Online sessions make it easier to access regular support from different locations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions or people who express themselves better in writing. These options are chosen to make therapy fit everyday life and practical schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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