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I offer flexible hours for clients with demanding jobs, shift patterns and family commitments to accommodate their changing hours.    

Welcome to Connect & Balance Counselling Service, and making that first step to healing & moving forward. My name is Ruth & I am a qualified integrative counsellor, offering you tools to make positive changes to enable you to manage independently, even when therapy has finished.  

My integrative process facilitates you with a deeper awareness of reflecting how your feelings & choices impact your mental wellbeing & help empower you with a healthier outlook. As a therapist I focus on individual problems, safely guiding and supporting you to understand the heart of the issue and reduce your distress, enabling you to flourish, grow & become a better version of yourself. 

I work with adults and young people with a wide variety of issues like anxiety, depression, grief, loss, neglect, low self-esteem, addiction, physical  & emotional abuse, stress, confidence, cancer, bereavement, loss, self-harm, menopause, abortion, & trauma, etc. 

It's not always easy reaching out to someone you know & often those closest to us are unable to help, not because they don't care but because they just don't know how to. I am a neutral party, providing empathy & genuine understanding to your personal difficulties. I Provide a relaxed environment, talking through your difficult obstacles at your own pace, working ethically, inclusively, with integrity & equality, respecting diversity, culture, race, gender, ethnic backgrounds & sexual orientation without judgement.    

The focus of the session is about your issues and recovery, whilst working together to build a solid foundation for a secure, trusting relationship, which promotes you with a deeper understanding & awareness of your thoughts, feelings & actions, to enrich the outcome for better results. This helps to validate your self-belief & worth to manage your triggers independently.  

I nurture your personal growth & enable you to progress in a healthier way, whilst boosting your confidence to grow & find  strength & courage to cope when overwhelming feelings become to intense. You can learn to empower yourself with a greater sense of fulfilment & live in the present, making better choices to personal happiness  & a meaningful life.

Everyone's story is different  & I will walk beside you, supporting with compassion & genuine care to resolve your problems.

I offer an initial free 15 minute telephone consultation to briefly discuss your issues and booking your first therapy session. Once the relevant forms have been signed and returned and payment has been made, it will confirm your therapy session. Sessions are 50 minutes.

Fees:  Â£60.00 Weekdays

£70.00 Weekends

£45.00 Counselling & Psychotherapy Students 

£120.00 for couples

I offer concessions to student studying counselling degrees.  

The first therapy session gives you an opportunity to express your issues & begin to build a trusting relationship together, which is paramount to your therapy, healing & moving forward.  I use various techniques which helps you to reflect on your past & present experiences to promote understanding & awareness for a healthier outcome & becoming the best version of yourself.

My established practise, offers a warm, trusting space where you can explore issues safely & I work ethically in your best interest, valuing & respecting your diverse needs, cultures, races & religions to enable you to become a confident individual.