Ruth Richards, BACP

Ruth Richards is a UK-based counsellor with 16 years of experience supporting people through personal change and recovery. She has a long-standing interest in helping clients reconnect with themselves, work through hidden pain or fears from past events, build skills to manage everyday stress, and maintain healthier relationships. Ruth describes her practice as practical and down-to-earth, offering empathy and active listening without judgment while tailoring each session to the client’s pace and needs.

Her work is integrative, drawing on concepts and techniques from different therapeutic models to suit individual circumstances. She offers both short-term and longer-term counselling and psychotherapy designed to promote healing and a greater sense of wholeness. Clients are invited to engage in self-exploration, to consider factors that may be maintaining difficulties, and to practise new behaviours that support their goals and life satisfaction.

Ruth is a member of BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings a collaborative, creative approach to therapy. She aims to build a supportive therapeutic relationship that helps clients set realistic goals, practise new ways of relating to themselves and others, and move beyond limiting patterns toward more fulfilling daily life.

Integrative approaches and online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without being dominated by them, and on clarifying values so they can take meaningful action. It can be helpful for anxiety, stress, low mood, and coping with life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns of relating developed in close relationships and works to strengthen emotional bonds and repair relational wounds. This approach can support people dealing with relationship difficulties, attachment issues, grief, and family concerns.

Client-Centered Therapy places the client’s experience at the heart of the work, offering empathic listening and a non-judgmental space to explore feelings and choices. It is useful for people seeking greater self-understanding, self-esteem work, or support through transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Ruth will work collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adapt the way she uses these approaches as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Ruth is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility to fit different schedules and locations. These options make it possible to continue consistent work when travel, work hours, caregiving, or living abroad might otherwise make in-person appointments difficult, while still allowing therapists and clients to build meaningful therapeutic relationships.