About Ruby
Ruby Preston is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She brings 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and changes in their lives. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to cope day to day.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to shape conversations and exercises that feel useful. Sessions focus on real situations - thoughts, behaviors, and relationships - and on developing skills that can be used between meetings.
How Ruby works
She adapts the pace to each person’s needs and goals. Ruby pays attention to issues like parenting strain, self-esteem, grief, trauma, anger, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. She helps people work through relationship struggles and family conflicts by teaching concrete coping tools and better communication habits.
She also supports people facing life transitions and the everyday demands that increase stress. Her style is respectful and straightforward. She listens first, then helps build a plan with practical steps.
Clients can expect clear feedback, skill practice, and check-ins on progress. Signing up starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. Ruby offers phone sessions, video calls, live chat, and text-based messaging, and she works with each person to fit therapy into their routine.
Ruby lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Ruby works with
The areas below are the ones Ruby selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How CBT and DBT inform online therapy
Ruby uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that increase distress. CBT often includes short exercises and thought records that people practice between sessions to see small shifts in mood and routine.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT techniques are useful when strong emotions, relationship conflict, or self-directed anger make daily functioning harder.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Ruby will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past. Together they try strategies for a few sessions and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can fit a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, brief skill practice, and ongoing communication between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work on skills outside the session.
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