About Ruth
Ruth Knight is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings two decades of clinical work to sessions. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Her manner is warm and straightforward.
She aims to meet people where they are and help them take practical steps toward feeling more settled and able to cope. Ruth uses somatic methods alongside talk-based work to help people notice how their bodies hold stress.
Background and approach
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. Ruth adapts the tools she uses to each person's needs rather than applying a single fixed method. People meet Ruth for a range of concerns, from panic and mood disorders to feelings of abandonment, shame, or isolation.
She also supports those dealing with relationship communication problems, caregiver stress, and life transitions such as divorce and separation. Sessions focus on practical skills, pacing, and building safety in the moment. Ruth works with clients in Texas and holds the TX LPC 62237 credential as a Licensed Professional Counselor.
She communicates in English and offers several online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Her approach is collaborative: clients set goals and Ruth helps map steps toward them. New clients start by completing a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
The service uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Online therapy that blends body work and practical talk
Somatic Therapy helps people notice how tension and trauma show up in the body. Exercises may include breath awareness, gentle tracking of sensations, and noticing habits that keep the body stuck. These methods can be helpful for stress, trauma responses, and panic symptoms.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It teaches practical tools to reduce anxiety and shift mood by changing behaviors and thinking patterns.
Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. It helps separate problems from identity so people can find alternative, more helpful ways to describe their experience.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Ruth collaborates with each person to figure out which combination of somatic practice and talk-based tools fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or challenges emerge.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. These formats allow continuity of care across schedules and locations within Texas and let people use the methods above in ways that suit their daily routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English