About Ruth
Ruth Fitzgerald offers calm, straightforward support for people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or difficult life changes. She aims to create a space where someone can talk at their own pace and start to make small, practical changes. Ruth is named in the first meeting so there is clarity about who will be guiding the process.
Ruth uses talking therapies to help people understand why they feel a certain way.
How Ruth works
Conversations focus on identifying repeated patterns and what lies behind them. The goal is clearer thinking and more choices about how to respond to daily strains. Sessions are used to look at current problems such as addictions, grief, eating concerns, anger and relationship struggles.
Ruth also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image and issues linked to attachment or abandonment. She includes work around ADHD, communication problems and coping after trauma. Her practice draws on client-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas and emotion-focused approaches.
Ruth also uses attachment-based perspectives and elements of dialectical behaviour thinking when they suit the person’s needs. She explains how each approach might help and works with people to find what fits. Ruth holds BACP as a credential, which is recorded as provided.
She has nine years of experience and works with adults in the United Kingdom. Sessions can be arranged by following the platform process to match with her and book a suitable time. Her style is compassionate and non-judgemental, with an emphasis on understanding personal history and building practical coping skills.
The aim is lasting change that helps someone feel more able to manage life’s challenges.
Ruth lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Ruth works with
The areas below are the ones Ruth selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Ruth's approaches work online
Attachment-based work helps people see how early relationships affect current feelings and reactions. It focuses on building understanding of attachment patterns so someone can change how they relate to others and feel safer in close contact.Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of the session. The therapist listens without judgement, reflects what is said and helps the person find their own solutions and strengths.
Cognitive behavioural ideas look at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. This approach helps identify unhelpful thinking, try alternative responses and build practical skills to manage anxiety, low mood or unhelpful behaviours.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together which methods suit the person’s goals and preferences. This collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual contact helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be quicker and need less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins or people who prefer written communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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