Ruth Anthony-McClary
Calm, practical support for life's changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ruth
Ruth Anthony-McClary greets people with a calm, practical style. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience in New Jersey. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and parenting concerns.
Her way of working aims to make small changes that add up to a steadier life. She listens first and adapts her approach to each person. Conversations and short-term goals guide the work.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools to build coping skills and to address responses tied to past hurts and trauma. Those tools include cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices to reduce overwhelming thoughts and emotions. Ruth also draws on attachment-based ideas to explore how past relationships shape present patterns.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. The mix of methods is chosen to match each person’s needs and pace. Sessions can include coaching elements when clients want practical steps for career or daily life challenges.
Ruth emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation. She aims to create a steady space for people to try new habits and perspectives. Her practice offers several ways to connect, including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She asks new clients to complete a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Practical approaches you can use online
Ruth often combines cognitive behavioral techniques with attachment-based ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change day-to-day patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then testing small changes that reduce distress. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship experiences shape current reactions and helps people try different ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit their situation. That collaborative process makes it easier to try strategies that feel doable in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats make it easier to schedule around work, school, and caregiving, and they let people maintain momentum between visits. Many clients find that having multiple options helps them stick with the plan and practice new skills in real time.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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