About Ruth
Ruth Vanden Bosch greets people with a calm, straightforward style and decades of experience. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with 25 years helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and life changes. Ruth offers a direct, compassionate approach for parents and adults seeking practical steps forward.
Ruth combines counseling and life coaching skills to create focused sessions. She listens for what matters most and helps people set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete tools for coping, improved communication, and rebuilding confidence. Her background includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and earlier degrees in nursing and psychology. Ruth has worked alongside hospice and cancer support programs and has led groups for grief, career concerns, and eating issues.
Those experiences inform her work with people facing serious illness, caregiving stress, or major life transitions. In the room she blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with attachment-based and emotionally-focused perspectives. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven into a practical plan tailored to each person.
The emphasis is on finding what helps someone move past obstacles and toward a more manageable daily life. Ruth also writes about healing and has contributed to publications and collaborative books. Her style is warm and encouraging, aimed at helping people notice small changes that add up.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and supports clients as they take steps toward clearer direction and greater well-being.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ruth commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on how emotions shape relationships and personal patterns, and it can help clarify needs and improve connection.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Ruth will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is good for an in-depth session with visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a break at work, and messaging can support short reflections or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and apply therapeutic tools in day-to-day life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English