About Ruth
Ruth Kizer is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) practicing in Texas. She brings 28 years of counseling experience and a calm, interactive approach. Ruth welcomes people who are hurting and wants to help them move toward a better life.
Ruth has worked in a range of settings including a state hospital, outpatient mental health clinic, and a volunteer counseling center. She also taught school for two years and has experience mentoring students.
How Ruth works
These roles shaped a practical style that values respect and compassion. Her work has covered many concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and addictions. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting and family concerns, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, and career stress.
Additional focus areas include chronic illness, caregiver strain, body image, and substance use challenges. Ruth uses a mix of approaches that she adapts to each person. She draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to build a plan that fits each situation.
In sessions she aims to be sensitive and practical. She listens, helps people clarify goals, and offers techniques to manage symptoms and cope with life changes. Ruth encourages small steps and supports people as they work toward change.
Ruth lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Ruth works with
The areas below are the ones Ruth selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Ruth’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy, and helps the person set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, combines acceptance and change strategies and often includes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ruth will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide what to try and adjust plans based on what helps most.
If you are interested in online sessions, confirm the available session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and let people join from different locations without traveling. Licensed professionals can use these methods effectively by teaching skills, guiding exercises, and reviewing progress between meetings.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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