Ruthie Brooks
Support for stress and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ruthie
Ruthie Brooks is a licensed professional counselor with 19 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She practices in Alabama and uses straightforward, practical methods to support emotional well-being. She focuses on everyday struggles like trouble sleeping, parenting stress, anger, and job pressures.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Conversations are paced to what the person needs that day. She listens first, then offers simple tools people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Ruthie blends talk-focused work with steps people can practice. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s priorities and Mindfulness Therapy to help calm racing thoughts.
Her background includes work with trauma, grief, obsessive-compulsive patterns, panic attacks, and caregiving stress. She pays attention to aging and geriatric issues as well as compassion fatigue in caregivers. Her approach aims to build skills for managing symptoms and improving daily functioning.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. People meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the Start Therapy flow.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person’s lead and building a trusting rapport. It helps when someone needs a steady, understanding listener and wants to explore what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors to ease anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist partners with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the current problem. That plan can change over time as progress is made or new issues come up.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. These options let people meet from home, during a break, or while traveling, and allow different ways to communicate depending on comfort and need. The mix of approaches and flexible formats helps people build skills and make steady changes in their daily routines.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
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