Ruth Frances

• Bereavement support
• Person-centred work
• Mindfulness techniques

About Ruth

Ruth Frances works on bereavement, depression, anxiety and issues related to cancer, using person-centred methods and other approaches to help people talk through difficult experiences. She is BACP-registered and has five years' experience in counselling. Ruth offers one-to-one sessions and provides both short-term and longer-term therapy options.

She trained and practised in bereavement support, including work with Cruse Bereavement Care and Macmillan, and has completed continuing professional development with those organisations. That background means she is familiar with loss, chronic illness and the stresses that can follow caring roles and major life changes.

Ruth draws on client-centred practice to focus on each person’s concerns and on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape current feelings. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to help with anxiety and low mood, and existential perspectives when people are wrestling with meaning and purpose.

Sessions are delivered one-to-one and can be arranged for shorter or longer periods depending on what a person wants to work on. Ruth aims to make it possible to talk about subjects that feel difficult to discuss with friends or family, and to set practical steps people can try between sessions.

She works in English and is based in the United Kingdom. Ruth does not take international clients. Before booking, people are invited to use the site process to match with her and schedule a first meeting.

How Ruth uses talking therapies online

Attachment-based work looks at how early and ongoing relationships affect current feelings and behaviour; it can help with grief, relationship strain and patterns of closeness or distance. Client-centred work focuses on the person in front of the counsellor, giving time to talk through concerns so that the client can find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to try between sessions to reduce anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Ruth will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences, and may combine approaches over time depending on what helps. This is discussed openly so clients know what to expect and can feed back on how things are going.

The practical benefits of arranging counselling online include fitting sessions around work or caring commitments and reducing travel time. The site’s booking process asks for a short questionnaire and allows scheduling a first session; confirm the specific session formats available with Ruth before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to maintain regular contact and to try brief check-ins when life gets busy.

Topics Ruth lists

• Stress and anxiety
• Relationship issues
• Trauma and abuse
• Grief
• Depression
• Addictions
• LGBT
• Family conflicts
• Intimacy-related issues
• Eating disorders
• Sleeping disorders
• Parenting issues
• Anger management
• Self-esteem
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Coping with life changes
• Compassion fatigue
• ADHD
• Abandonment
• Aging and geriatric issues
• Antisocial personality
• Attachment issues
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome
• Avoidant personality
• Blended family issues
• Body image
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Co-morbidity
• Codependency
• Commitment issues
• Communication problems
• Control issues
• Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
• Dependent personality
• Dissociation
• Divorce and separation
• Domestic violence
• Drug and alcohol addiction
• Eating and food-related issues
• Emptiness
• Family problems
• Fatherhood issues
• Fertility issues
• First responder issues
• Forgiveness
• Gender dysphoria
• Guilt and shame
• Hearing impaired
• HIV and AIDS
• Hoarding
• Hospice and end-of-life counselling
• Impulsivity
• Infidelity
• Intellectual disability
• Isolation and loneliness
• Jealousy
• Life purpose
• Money and financial issues
• Mood disorders
• Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
• Panic disorder and panic attacks
• Paranoia
• Personality disorders
• Phobias
• Postpartum depression
• Post-traumatic stress
• Pregnancy and childbirth
• Prejudice and discrimination
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Self-harm
• Self-love
• Sex addiction
• Sexual assault and abuse
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sexuality
• Quitting smoking or vaping
• Social anxiety and phobia
• Women's issues
• Workplace issues
• Young adult issues

Ways of working

• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Client-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Existential Therapy
• Mindfulness Therapy
• Trauma-Focused Therapy

Questions about Ruth

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety is listed among the concerns she works on and she uses CBT and mindfulness to help manage symptoms.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She offers person-centred counselling alongside attachment-based, cognitive behavioural and mindfulness-informed approaches.

How much experience does she have?

She has five years' experience in counselling, including work with bereavement and cancer support organisations.

Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?

She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP.

Can I have sessions in other languages?

Sessions are offered in English only.

What session formats does she offer?

Her biography notes one-to-one work and both short and long term therapy; confirm current session formats before booking.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I start working with her?

Select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.