About Ula
Ula Rutan is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with a ten-year career helping people navigate hard moments. She brings an easy-going, down-to-earth manner and a sense of humor to sessions. She aims to make clients feel seen, heard, and understood while supporting practical steps toward change.
She trained at Siena Heights University and holds a master's degree in community counseling. Over the past decade she has worked with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family strain, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, stress, and grief.
How Ula works
Parenting challenges, self-esteem struggles, and career-related stress are familiar topics in her work. Her approach mixes several evidence-based methods to match a person’s needs. Ula uses client-centered work to prioritize each person’s goals and perspective.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing also appear in sessions when they fit the situation. Ula also focuses on adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
She supports people dealing with domestic violence effects, fatherhood challenges, postpartum depression, and post-traumatic stress. Issues like forgiveness, guilt, isolation, and financial worries are addressed in practical ways. Sessions usually involve straightforward conversation, goal-setting, and simple skills to try between meetings.
Ula aims for a collaborative, respectful process that helps people make steady progress toward clearer choices and better day-to-day coping.
Ula lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Ula works with
The areas below are the ones Ula selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and improve connection and trust through thoughtful conversations and corrective experiences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It teaches concrete strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and build new behavioral habits that reduce anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions often blend approaches so practical skills and deeper relational work happen together rather than in isolation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy days while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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