About Rutanya
Rutanya Simon is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nine years of practice. She works from Texas and focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, grief, and major life changes. Her style is direct and conversational.
She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk honestly about what’s going on. Before moving into independent practice in Texas, she spent time working in the court system.
Background and approach
That work involved supporting people in recovery and helping them navigate practical life changes. She also spent several years working with families to improve day-to-day functioning despite difficult circumstances. Her approach centers on practical, goal-focused conversations.
She uses client-centered methods to follow the person’s lead, and solution-focused strategies to break problems into small, doable steps. Cognitive behavioral ideas are used to identify unhelpful patterns and replace them with healthier habits. Sessions tend to be collaborative and focused on behavior change.
She helps people spot counterproductive habits and build pro-social activities that support better outcomes. The client is treated as the expert on their life while the therapist helps maintain focus on agreed goals. Rutanya describes her work as holistic and nonjudgmental.
She supports people working through attachment and family-of-origin issues, communication and control problems, impulsivity, and challenges tied to relationships and parenting. Her aim is steady progress toward more manageable days and clearer goals.
Approaches that fit online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. It helps when someone needs empathy, space to sort thoughts, and guidance that respects their experience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that feed anxiety, depression, impulsivity, or ADHD-related struggles. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past experiences, and what methods feel most usable. Together they try techniques, check what works, and adjust the plan over time so sessions match the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions can make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face connection when a longer session or deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in fits better into a workday. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, quick coaching between sessions, or when someone prefers not to use video. These options help people fit therapy into daily life and keep progress moving even when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Texas, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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