Ruth Richards
Compassionate counsellor for life changes
About Ruth
Ruth Richards brings 16 years of experience as a counsellor in the United Kingdom. She offers calm, down-to-earth support and listens without judgement. Ruth helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low, or overwhelmed by life changes.
She works at the client’s pace and adapts sessions to each person’s needs. Ruth aims to build a dependable therapeutic relationship so people feel heard and understood. She uses a blend of approaches rather than one fixed method, choosing what fits each person.
Background and approach
That might include talking through painful memories, practising new ways to cope with anxiety, or finding clearer ways to manage anger and stress. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, from relationship and parenting strain to grief, trauma and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people with self-esteem and career worries, chronic health challenges, neurodiversity questions such as autism, and issues around attachment or abandonment. Sessions can be short term or longer term depending on what is needed. Ruth encourages practical steps alongside reflection, so new habits and patterns can be tried between sessions.
The aim is to help people notice small, useful changes in everyday life. Ruth is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated as BACP. She offers sessions in English and accepts people from outside the UK.
To begin, clients choose a start route and complete a short matching questionnaire.
What Ruth works with
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Sessions & fees
How Ruth’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours, which is often helpful for anxiety, low mood and anger. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on understanding emotions and improving emotional connection, which can help people dealing with relationship strain and attachment issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches and will check in regularly to see what is helping and what needs changing.
Online therapy lets people access sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging, so it can fit around work, family and other commitments. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when video is difficult or bandwidth is low, live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These formats offer flexibility and make it simpler to keep momentum between sessions.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
