About Ruthie
Ruthie Brooks is a licensed professional counselor with 19 years of experience. She helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes in a calm, straightforward way. Ruthie works to strengthen self-esteem and to build practical coping skills clients can use every day.
Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, grief, sleep difficulties, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing mood disorders, panic attacks, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, and the impacts of aging and caregiving.
Background and approach
Ruthie draws on a mix of helpful methods rather than one fixed approach. In sessions she listens closely and centers the client's goals. Conversations focus on what is working, what gets in the way, and small steps that lead to relief.
She prefers clear, achievable strategies so clients can practice between meetings. Ruthie uses client-centered work alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques. She also brings solution-focused ideas to short-term problem solving.
This combination aims to reduce symptoms and strengthen coping over time. Clients who choose her often want practical tools and steady emotional support. Ruthie makes space for both immediate concerns and longer-term change.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Ruthie uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear, structured exercises. CBT is often useful for anxiety, panic, mood concerns, and compulsive patterns because it focuses on skills that can be practiced between sessions.She also relies on client-centered therapy, which places the person's goals and experiences at the center of work. That approach helps clients feel heard, clarifies priorities, and guides collaborative planning for change.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ruthie will work together with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. She adjusts techniques as progress is made so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats make regular care easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can provide quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, short communications. These options help people keep continuity of care and pick what works best for their routine.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan
- Languages
- English