About Frank
Frank Ruse is a licensed clinical social worker who brings three decades of experience to therapy. He uses a relaxed style and a straightforward approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, ADHD, and related life challenges. Frank speaks plainly and listens first to understand each person's needs.
Frank has worked as an addiction counselor and clinical social worker for 30 years. That background shapes how he supports people dealing with grief, sleep or eating struggles, parenting stress, career changes, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
He also helps with communication problems, codependency, and issues that follow disasters or trauma. In sessions he combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and motivational conversation. He draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning and directions that fit their lives.
Trauma-focused strategies are used when past harms are part of current difficulties. Frank aims for an easygoing atmosphere and will meet people where they are. He uses some humor and practical exercises to make change feel doable.
Clients receive clear expectations and simple suggestions to try between meetings. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Frank works from South Carolina and conducts therapy in English.
He provides guidance on next steps and helps people schedule follow-up visits that match their needs.
Using practical approaches online to meet real-life needs
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding. It puts the person's goals and experience at the center of each session and helps build a trusting working relationship that supports change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses clear, step-by-step techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more effective behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many daily life problems.
Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on how past harms affect current feelings and reactions. It uses careful, paced work to reduce the hold of traumatic memories and to strengthen coping skills.
Frank will collaborate with each person to choose the approaches that fit best. He listens to goals and preferences and adjusts methods over time so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging works for short updates or ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Connecticut, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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