Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Hello, my name is Ruth. I have been working with clients for over fifteen years. I have always loved supporting people through their journey of self-healing. People have different reasons for participating in therapy sessions; it may be to reconnect with themselves or to overcome hidden pain and fears caused by past events. Others may utilise therapy to learn new skills for dealing with the stresses of daily life or to maintain relationships. Whatever your reason for therapy, I will work creatively to help you reach your goals. I’m a very down-to-earth therapist who will not judge you but will empathise and actively listen to you. My approach to therapy is to tailor the sessions to the client’s pace and needs.
What is the aim of integrative counselling?
I begin by creating a therapeutic relationship with my clients. Ensuring my clients feel heard and understood is important to me, and I work continuously to achieve this and to allow the process of healing and change to begin. Moreover, I provide both short- and long-term counselling and psychotherapy. Integrative counselling aims to promote healing and facilitate wholeness—ensuring that all levels of a person are maximised to their full potential. Clients must be committed to self-exploration and open to identifying the factors in their lives that are perpetuating problems and/or causing current concerns.
Integrative therapy helps create a healthy alliance between mind and body, empowering clients to set goals and practise new behaviours, that enable them to move beyond their limitations and discover greater life satisfaction.
How does integrative therapy work?
The counsellor’s role within integrative therapy is to cater for each individual client, by using specific techniques and key concepts drawn from various approaches all of which are deemed appropriate for the client and their needs.
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Ruth Richards is an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with 16 years of experience supporting people through personal change and recovery.
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career issues, coping with life changes, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Ruth also offers coaching alongside therapeutic work and is a female therapist of colour who lists Christian, older, conservative and liberal perspectives among her professional descriptors.
Ruth approaches therapy in a down-to-earth, non-judgemental way, listening actively and responding with empathy. People come to her for different reasons – to reconnect with themselves, to work through hidden pain and fears from past events, to learn practical skills for everyday pressures, or to strengthen and maintain relationships – and she adapts sessions creatively to suit each individual’s goals and pace.
She provides both short- and long-term counselling and psychotherapy using an integrative model. Integrative counselling in her practice aims to promote healing and a sense of wholeness by addressing the full range of a person’s needs and helping them to realise their potential. Ruth asks clients to be willing to explore their lives and to identify the factors that may be sustaining current difficulties, and she supports them to set goals and practise new behaviours that can reduce limitations and increase life satisfaction.
Within integrative therapy Ruth draws on techniques and concepts from several approaches, selecting those that are most appropriate for each client. Her role is to create a therapeutic relationship in which clients feel heard and understood, and to work alongside them as they move through the process of change and recovery.
For many common concerns – such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and navigating life changes – remote therapy can be just as effective as meeting in person. Research and clinical practice show that online sessions frequently deliver comparable outcomes for these types of issues.
One major advantage of online therapy is flexibility. Clients can choose the format that best suits them – video calls, phone sessions, live chat or in-app messaging – which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule or to access support from different locations.
Each therapist offering online work is a licensed professional, and clients have the option to change therapists if they feel another match would be better. This approach allows people to find the therapeutic fit and the mode of connection that best supports their needs and goals.
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