About Ruth
Ruth Racz is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and other life changes. She offers a calm, conversational style so clients can speak plainly about what matters most. Ruth aims to create a space where people can be honest and work toward clearer goals.
Ruth has 14 years of experience in community mental health and earned a master’s degree from Troy University in 2011.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people with trauma, mood concerns such as bipolar disorder, and co-occurring conditions. She has also worked with issues tied to caregiving, aging, and codependency. In sessions she draws on client-centered methods that focus on the person’s needs and perspective.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are incorporated for coping and emotional regulation. Ruth describes her sessions as conversational rather than formal.
She encourages clients to speak freely, raise difficult topics, and set practical goals. Her approach blends listening with concrete strategies to manage symptoms and day-to-day challenges. Clients can expect straightforward feedback and tools they can use between sessions.
Ruth also brings experience with family and communication problems, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, and career or life-purpose questions. She works in Alabama and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that work well online
Ruth uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's priorities and perspective, creating room for honest conversation and goal-setting. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ruth will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then suggest strategies to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust methods as needs change over time.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video is useful when visual cues and face-to-face conversation matter. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day and use less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can work for shorter check-ins, reflective writing, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people access therapy from different locations in Alabama without needing to travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English