About Almudena
Almudena Ruiz Roman is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 27 years of experience who offers straightforward, evidence-based help for people facing strong stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and practices in Connecticut. Her approach is calm and direct, aiming to help people feel steadier and more able to manage daily challenges.
She helps people who are coping with depression, panic attacks, phobias, substance use issues, trauma and abuse, and anger.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with chronic illness or pain, midlife transitions, immigration-related stress, postpartum mood concerns, and first responder challenges. Sessions focus on practical skills you can use between meetings. Her background includes clinical work across several countries and nearly three decades in practice.
Almudena holds LCPC and LPC credentials and draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She uses plain language and a down-to-earth manner so people can talk about hard things without feeling overwhelmed. In session she aims to be genuine and non-judgmental.
She works with each person to identify manageable steps toward better coping and clearer goals. The emphasis is on changing how people respond to difficulties, both inside and in day-to-day life. Therapy can start with a short matching questionnaire followed by scheduling.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
Approaches and online care for stress, fear, and recovery
Almudena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address anxiety, phobias, trauma, and addiction. One common method focuses on exposure and gradual practice of feared situations to reduce avoidance and panic. This approach helps people face specific fears slowly and build confidence over time.Another technique emphasizes skills training for mood and stress management, including learning coping strategies for overwhelming feelings and tools to regulate anger or depressive symptoms. These practical skills are aimed at improving day-to-day functioning. A trauma-informed approach is also used to help people process painful memories and reduce their impact on current life, with care taken to move at a pace that feels tolerable.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone visits can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or brief reflections between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still getting focused support.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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