Ruth Kizer
Calm, practical counseling focused on change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ruth
Ruth Kizer is an LPC with 28 years of counseling experience based in Texas. She welcomes people who are hurting and aims to help them move toward a better life with steady, practical support. Ruth writes in a calm, straightforward way and keeps sessions respectful and compassionate.
Ruth has worked in a variety of settings including a state hospital, outpatient mental health clinic, and a volunteer counseling center. She has also taught school and mentored students, which shaped her patient approach to helping people with life and work concerns.
Background and approach
Her caseload has included anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around parenting, sleeping, and eating. She has experience addressing addiction, bipolar concerns, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and a range of personality and communication challenges. Ruth uses a relaxed and interactive style in sessions.
She draws on client-centered methods and evidence-informed tools to help people notice thoughts, test new coping skills, and try small behavior changes. Sessions are adapted to each person’s needs and goals rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. People who want direct, down-to-earth guidance may find her approach useful.
She aims to help clients identify what matters to them, practice new ways of responding, and build skills for everyday life. If someone is ready to take a next step, Ruth offers steady support as they work toward change.
How Ruth’s approaches fit into online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s point of view. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps them clarify what matters. This approach is helpful for people who want a supportive space to talk through hard things.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses simple experiments and practice tasks to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. CBT often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving concrete tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ruth will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques as progress is made so the plan fits the person rather than the person fitting the plan.
The practical benefit of online therapy is fitting sessions into busy lives. It can make scheduling easier and reduce travel time, so people can meet during a break at work or between caregiving duties. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking to know what will work best for your routine.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point