About Ruth
Ruth Frances is a counsellor with five years of experience who works in the United Kingdom. She is BACP registered, and she sees people one-to-one for both short and longer-term therapy. Ruth aims to make therapy a place where difficult topics can be spoken about openly and without judgement.
Ruth drew on work with bereavement services and cancer support charities early in her career. That experience deepened her knowledge of grief, chronic illness and related stresses.
How Ruth works
She also has a practical background supporting people with anxiety, depression and addiction concerns. Her style is warm and person-centred. Sessions focus on the person in front of her and what matters most to them.
Ruth listens for patterns in relationships, attachment and communication and helps people try out different ways of coping. She uses a mix of approaches to meet each person’s needs. Cognitive behavioural ideas can help with thoughts and behaviour.
Attachment-based and mindfulness approaches help with relationships and staying present. Ruth adapts methods to suit the issue and the pace a person prefers. Ruth works with a wide range of concerns including stress, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strains, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caring responsibilities and body image worries. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire is used to connect someone to Ruth, then sessions are scheduled according to her availability. Therapy is offered by subscription and can be cancelled at any time.
Ruth lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| 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 translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early patterns of relating affect current relationships. Online sessions give space to reflect on attachment experiences and practise different ways of connecting in everyday life. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s experience and pace, offering non-judgemental listening and support to build insight and self-trust. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, concentrates on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours; it is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Ruth will work together with the person to decide which ideas and methods suit their goals and preferences. This collaborative process means approaches can be blended or adjusted as trust and clarity develop across sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for a more traditional session feel and reading non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer to write, need flexible timing or want brief check-ins between sessions. These options help make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into daily life.
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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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