About Ramon
Ramon Ruiz IV is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Texas with 10 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, anger, sleep problems, and relationship concerns. He works with people who are coping with trauma, low self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, and major life changes.
Ramon focuses on practical steps and clear goals so conversations feel useful from the first session. Ramon takes a respectful and direct approach.
How Ramon works
He listens first, then helps identify what is getting in the way. Sessions are tailored to each person's situation rather than using one fixed plan. He aims to be straightforward and encouraging while offering tools people can try between meetings.
He uses a mix of methods that match what the person needs. That can include client-centered techniques that follow the person's lead, cognitive behavior strategies to shift unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness skills to manage intense emotions. Motivational interviewing is used when someone needs help finding reasons to change.
Ramon also supports people dealing with substance and behavioral addictions, attachment and personality-related concerns, and chronic physical illness or pain that affects mood. He pays attention to how different problems connect and looks for small changes that add up over time. Ramon aims to make starting therapy as simple as possible.
He helps set clear, achievable goals and adjusts the plan as progress happens. His style is practical, steady, and focused on helping people regain control of day-to-day life.
Ramon lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Ramon works with
The areas below are the ones Ramon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping skills
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's concerns and building a trusting working relationship. It helps when someone needs to feel heard and wants to set the direction for their own progress. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Ramon will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change over time as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into life. Video calls offer a face-to-face feel, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and make it simpler to keep up with therapy while managing work, caregiving, or other demands.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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