About Ula
Ula Rutan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with ten years of clinical experience. She presents as easygoing and down-to-earth and uses warmth and a bit of humor to help people feel seen and understood. She aims to empower clients to move toward their goals and greater wellbeing.
Ula trained at Siena Heights University where she earned a master’s degree in community counseling. Over the past decade she has supported people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and stress.
Background and approach
She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting struggles, career questions, and life transitions. Her style blends several practical methods to suit each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She uses mindfulness practices to build calm and present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. In sessions she prioritizes listening first.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to the client’s comfort. Goals are set together and revisited so progress stays relevant to day-to-day life. Ula also works with issues tied to adoption and foster care, attachment challenges, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and post-traumatic stress.
She supports people managing parenting demands, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related concerns, and financial stress. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences. Sessions are arranged through the site’s matching and scheduling process.
Approaches that translate to online care
Ula uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety and mood symptoms. She also draws on mindfulness practices to build moment-to-moment awareness, helping clients manage stress and emotional reactivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other routines while still working through anxiety, relationships, trauma-related concerns, and life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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