Ruth Frances
Warm, person-centred support for life’s hard moments
About Ruth
Ruth Frances is a BACP counsellor who has spent five years supporting people through loss, long-term health challenges and common mental health difficulties. She offers one-to-one sessions and works with both short-term concerns and longer journeys of change. Ruth aims to make it easier to say things that feel hard to bring up with others.
Her background includes work with bereavement charities and cancer support organisations, where she gained practical experience and ongoing professional development.
Background and approach
That work exposed her to many different life stories and practical problems that people bring into therapy. Ruth’s way of working is warm and person-focused. She listens carefully, helps people clarify what matters to them, and gently tests new ways of coping.
Sessions are intended to be a calm space to talk, notice patterns, and try different approaches to painful thoughts and feelings. She combines practical techniques with attention to personal meaning. Cognitive approaches help with unhelpful thinking and mood.
Attachment and client-centred ideas guide how she builds a trusting relationship and explores relationship patterns that affect wellbeing. People come with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship strains, addiction concerns, sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, ADHD and other life changes. Ruth also supports those facing long-term illness, caregiver stress and body image difficulties.
She works in English and provides online sessions across the United Kingdom.
What Ruth works with
How Ruth works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Ruth draws on attachment-based and cognitive behavioural ideas to guide online therapy. Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current ways of relating and managing emotions, which is useful for relationship issues, grief and intimacy concerns. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and tests practical steps to change mood, sleep, eating and anxiety symptoms.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Ruth treats this as a collaborative process - she listens to your goals, tries approaches, and adapts methods to fit your needs and preferences as therapy develops.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit fuller conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow for brief check-ins, reflection between sessions, or a way to fit therapy into a busy day. These options let people access consistent support from different locations across the United Kingdom.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
Most often
- 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 counselling
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
