Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Identifies and challenges detrimental thought patterns, helping individuals alter negative behaviours, navigate challenging situations, and enhance both their mental and physical well-being.
Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies along with commitment and behaviour change strategies to increase psychological flexibility
Emotional Freedom technique (EFT)
Combines acupressure and psychological strategies to relieve stress and emotional distress and address limiting beliefs, self-sabotaging behaviours or patterns in life.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Employs guided relaxation and concentrated focus to create a trance-like state, enhancing an individual's openness to positive suggestions for transformation and personal growth.
Narrative Power Therapy
Empowers individuals to reshape their personal narratives, providing innovative strategies to address and overcome their challenges.
Somatic Therapy
Body orientated approach that assists people to work through past and current trauma.
Mindfulness-based practices
Utilising various activities and techniques designed to enhance awareness of thoughts, sensations, and emotions in the present moment, approached without judgment or expectation. These practices encourage individuals to cultivate a deeper understanding of their internal experiences, fostering a sense of presence and acceptance.
Interpersonal Therapy
Focuses on improving interpersonal relationships, emotional awareness and social function to reduce psychological symptoms and distress psychological symptoms and improve wellbeing.
About Ruth
Ruth has a wealth of experience in human services spanning over forty years and is a highly qualified Counsellor and Trauma specialist with a background in Nursing, Counselling, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Social Work and executive leadership.
She is an accredited Mental Health Social Worker and a member of both the Australian Association of Social Workers and Somatic Experiencing International.
Ruth’s therapeutic approach is grounded in her core values of connection, compassion and collaboration and adheres to trauma informed principles of safety, trust, choice, collaboration and empowerment.
