About Ruth
Ruth Dombrowski is a licensed social worker with 26 years of clinical experience. She practices in Texas as a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Texas. Ruth focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship struggles, and phobias in straightforward, practical ways.
Her approach is down-to-earth and skills-focused. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people name and change patterns in close relationships.
Background and approach
Ruth also draws on attachment-based ideas and relationship work like the Gottman and Imago methods when needed. Sessions tend to center on clear steps people can use between meetings. She helps clients notice what keeps problems repeating and then practices new ways of responding.
Mindfulness tools and simple behavioral strategies are often part of the work. Ruth has a long history caring for people through grief, trauma, addiction, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also supports people coping with intimacy questions, body image, sexual expression such as BDSM and kink, and caregiver stress.
Her years in practice give her a wide perspective on common life challenges. People who choose her can expect calm, direct conversation and practical homework. Ruth works with English-speaking clients in Texas and with international clients by online formats.
Fees vary with location and use a cancellable subscription model.
How Ruth’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships. Online sessions can help people identify those patterns and practice new ways of relating to partners and close others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote work CBT often uses structured exercises, thought records, and short behavioral experiments people can try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She often combines approaches and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the direction feels useful and achievable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and relationship work. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, coping prompts, and ongoing homework without scheduling a full session. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, family, caregiving, or health challenges.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Texas
- Languages
- English
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