About Frank
Frank Ruse is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 30 years of experience to sessions. He combines straightforward conversation with practical tools so people feel safer facing anxiety, phobias, addiction, and life changes. Frank keeps sessions relaxed and direct.
He listens first, then helps clients break problems into manageable steps. He often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and client-centered ways to follow each person’s pace. Over three decades as an addiction counselor and social worker, he has worked with people coping with trauma, grief, depression, and job- or parenting-related stress.
Background and approach
That background shapes how he helps someone rebuild routines, manage cravings, and respond differently to triggers. In sessions he mixes practical strategies with open conversation. Motivational interviewing helps people find reasons to change.
Trauma-focused methods guide careful work on past hurts when it feels necessary and possible. Frank is based in South Carolina and holds the LCSW credential and the LISW-CP designation. He offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their life and schedule.
If someone is ready to begin, he asks them to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session.
Approaches that guide online work
Frank often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, phobias, and many everyday problems. He also applies Client-Centered Therapy to follow the person’s pace, offering empathic listening and support while clients decide what to work on.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Frank will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try. He treats the choice as collaborative and will adjust the plan as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Connecticut, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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