About Ruth
Ruth Gus is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She has 15 years of experience helping people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious or stuck. Ruth offers calm, non-judgemental support for people facing stress, grief, depression and relationship concerns, including intimacy-related issues and family difficulties.
Ruth meets each person where they are and aims to make talking feel straightforward and practical. She encourages people to describe what is worrying them and to pick small, useful steps forward.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, anger, sleep problems and issues around self-esteem. Her work covers a wide range of life challenges such as career worries, major life changes, compassion fatigue and caring responsibilities. Ruth has additional focus on attachment and abandonment concerns, communication and commitment problems, codependency and blended family matters.
She also works with people affected by cancer and caregiver stress. Ruth draws on client-centred ways of working to keep conversations focused on the individual’s needs. She uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify what they want and to build motivation for change.
Sessions are practical and paced to suit each person. People can expect a respectful, steady approach that values honesty and small progress. Ruth aims to support people to feel more able to manage daily pressures and to move towards clearer choices about relationships, work and wellbeing.
How Ruth’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's own experience at the heart of each session. The counsellor listens closely, reflects back what she hears and helps the person explore feelings and choices in their own words. This approach can be helpful for anxiety, grief and relationship concerns where being understood matters.Motivational Interviewing focuses on drawing out a person's reasons for change. It uses straightforward questions and reflective listening to build motivation and to set realistic next steps. People often use this for coping with life changes, career decisions or patterns like codependency and avoidance.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will discuss goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods suit a person best. The plan can change as therapy progresses and as needs shift.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options offer flexibility and practical ways to keep therapy consistent even when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
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