Dr. Ruth Alice Morgan-Jones, BACP

Dr. Ruth Alice Morgan-Jones is an experienced, dynamic therapist whose career spans several decades working with individuals, couples, and families facing relationship difficulties. She trained initially as a social worker at the University of Chicago, where she earned an MA, and later completed a PhD at the London School of Economics that became a book on the impact of hearing loss on family life. She is an excellent lipreader and holds a diploma in Family Therapy.

After marrying her English husband in 1967 and moving to the United Kingdom in 1970, she trained with Relate, the UK relationship support charity, and went on to found HearSay, a charity serving individuals with special needs and their families, where she served for 12 years as the principal clinician. Today she maintains a private practice focused on relationship, family, and related concerns.

Initially trained in psychodynamic approaches, she now works eclectically, drawing on the client-centered ideas of Carl Rogers, the analytical perspectives of C.G. Jung, cognitive therapy techniques, and systemic thinking. She emphasizes empowering clients to move to the next stage of their lives and has a particular special interest in intercultural couples, a subject she has researched and continues to write about. For the past 10 years she has provided diversity training for charities and agencies. She is a registered senior accredited member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). She is a Christian and is married to a priest.