Ruth Fitzgerald
Calm, practical support for emotional change
About Ruth
Ruth Fitzgerald offers calm, practical support for people coping with anxiety, depression, addiction and relationship difficulties. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping people talk through what is happening and why it feels so hard. Ruth aims to help clients find clearer ways to cope and make decisions that feel right for them.
Sessions are paced to suit each person. Ruth helps clients uncover patterns that keep causing problems and looks at how past experiences affect present feelings.
Background and approach
She encourages small, manageable steps so change feels possible rather than overwhelming. Her background includes nine years of clinical practice and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Ruth draws on several approaches to tailor work to the person rather than using a single method.
In conversations she focuses on understanding emotions, relationships and unhelpful behaviours. That can involve looking at attachment experiences, thoughts and coping strategies, and how emotions are handled in close relationships. People meet practical tools alongside reflective conversation.
Ruth aims to help clients build confidence to manage life’s challenges and to make choices that lead to a more satisfying day-to-day life.
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Sessions & fees
How Ruth's approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how early ties shape current feelings and reactions; it can be useful for people struggling with trust, abandonment fears or relationship distress. Client-centred work gives the person space to lead the conversation, while the counsellor reflects and listens closely to build understanding and self-direction. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change behaviours.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will discuss goals and preferences with each person and together they will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as needs change during therapy.
Online therapy offers practical options to fit different lives. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caring duties or other commitments while keeping therapeutic continuity with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
