About Ula
Ula Rutan is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with ten years of practice helping people navigate hard moments. She brings a down-to-earth, easy-going manner and a sense of humor to sessions. Her goal is to help clients feel seen, heard, and understood while they work toward clearer direction and stronger coping skills.
Ula earned a master’s degree in community counseling from Siena Heights University. Over a decade she has supported people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, anxiety and depression, parenting stress, grief, and work-related burnout.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns like ADHD, postpartum depression, and challenges tied to adoption and blended families. In sessions she uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. That can include cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns, mindfulness practices to build present-moment skills, and motivational strategies to clarify goals.
Attachment-based ideas often guide work on relationship and parenting concerns. Her style is practical and conversational. She helps people talk through what’s getting in the way and try small, doable changes between sessions.
She also supports people who are coping with major life transitions, caregiving stress, or lingering effects of past trauma. Ula aims to create a straightforward, collaborative space where clients set the pace. She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into someone’s life and what reasonable next steps could look like.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape how people connect and respond to stress. It can help when parenting feels stuck, when blended family dynamics are tense, or when people want clearer communication with loved ones.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns because it gives concrete tools to change how people react day to day.
Mindfulness approaches help people notice what is happening in the present moment and develop simple skills to manage strong emotions. These practices can be useful alongside other methods for grief, anger, and trauma-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of working together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then tailor methods to the client’s needs. That collaborative process makes it easier to try approaches that feel useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different life demands. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact when convenient, phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or hands-free time is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or to share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, caregiving, or school commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English