About Almudena
Almudena Ruiz Roman uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, anger, and depression. She presents a calm, straightforward style and speaks both English and Spanish. Her background spans several countries and nearly three decades of clinical practice in counseling.
She draws on 27 years of experience working with people who face loss, life changes, chronic illness, or overwhelming emotions. Sessions focus on practical steps for coping with panic, phobias, mood shifts, and the fallout of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with substance use, domestic violence effects, and guilt or shame. Almudena pays attention to life stage concerns such as aging, midlife transitions, and postpartum depression. She helps people who are navigating immigration challenges or the stress that comes with first responder roles.
Chronic pain and co-occurring medical and mental health issues are addressed with care and realistic planning. Her approach emphasizes honesty and a nonjudgmental attitude. She works with clients to identify goals, try new coping strategies, and notice small changes that add up.
Conversations are practical and focused on what will make daily life easier. People meet with her by phone, video call, live chat, or text messaging depending on what fits their routine. She asks for a short matching questionnaire to begin and helps schedule sessions from there.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Almudena uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional regulation. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive thinking. This helps with panic attacks, phobias, and mood shifts by teaching new ways to respond to thoughts and situations.Another approach centers on processing traumatic memories and reducing their hold on daily life. Work of this kind aims to lessen flashbacks, nightmares, and intense emotional reactions so people can regain a sense of control and safety in everyday routines.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will ask about your goals, routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then recommend techniques to try. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted over time based on what works for you.
Online therapy is offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues. Phone calls can fit into a lunch break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try approaches that suit their needs.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Illinois
- Languages
- English, Spanish