About Ruth
Dr. Ruth Alice Morgan-Jones has practised for four decades as a counsellor and therapist. She trained first as a social worker in the United States, completed an MA, and later earned a PhD at the London School of Economics.
She also holds a diploma in Family Therapy and is a BACP member. Ruth runs a independent practice from the United Kingdom and works with people who bring relationship and life stresses to therapy.
Background and approach
Her background includes founding and leading a charity for people with special needs and their families. She has extensive experience with hearing loss and is an excellent lipreader. Ruth has delivered diversity training for charities and agencies for more than ten years and has researched intercultural relationships.
Ruth’s style is warm and collaborative. She draws on a range of approaches rather than using only one method. In sessions she aims to help people feel heard, understand repeating patterns, and make practical changes that help them move forward.
People come to her for relationship difficulties, parenting worries, grief, anxiety, depression and issues around identity and intimacy. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, work strain, and life transitions. Ruth lists phobias among the concerns she can address.
Her work with individuals focuses on empowerment and next steps. With couples and family matters she looks at patterns of interaction and communication. She is experienced supporting those affected by trauma, attachment issues, and complex life histories.
How Ruth’s approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds shape present relationships. Online sessions look at those patterns and help people change how they relate to partners and close others, which is useful for intimacy and communication problems.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. In this approach the therapist listens without judgement and helps clients find their own answers, useful for low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions.
Psychodynamic Therapy examines recurring themes and unconscious patterns that affect choices and feelings. Used in online sessions, it can help someone understand long-standing reactions to stress, grief or attachment wounds.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ruth will work together with each person to identify which methods match their goals and preferences. That collaborative decision can change over time as needs shift and progress is reviewed.
Online therapy provides practical benefits. Video calls allow visual contact for emotional work and for lipreading when needed. Phone sessions work well if internet is unreliable or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief reflections between sessions, or a lower-key way to start therapy. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or mobility constraints.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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