About Ruth
Ruth Hickmon is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and ADHD. She writes plainly and works to make therapy feel manageable for someone who is overwhelmed. Ruth aims to help people take the first small steps toward change.
Ruth shapes sessions around each person’s needs. She uses practical tools to build coping skills and reduce daily distress.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is happening now and what can be changed one step at a time. Her work draws on methods such as client-centered care, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns. These approaches are used to help people notice unhelpful patterns, practice new responses, and strengthen emotional awareness.
Ruth has six years of experience as a practicing clinician in Florida. Her background includes work with people dealing with trauma, addiction, caregiver stress, and complicated family histories. She often supports those wrestling with guilt, shame, isolation, or the aftermath of loss.
In therapy she aims to create a steady, patient space to talk through hard topics. Sessions include goal-setting, skill practice, and short-term strategies for coping. Ruth encourages clients to track small wins and to build habits that support longer term change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ruth often uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping the work around what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and make choices that fit their values. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people notice their experience without judgment and to build moment-to-moment coping. These approaches can be especially useful for managing anxiety, stress, mood shifts, and attention-related challenges. Choosing the right mix of methods is part of the collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to try strategies and adjust them based on progress and personal preference.
Online therapy here is offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make scheduling easier and let people use formats that fit their routine and comfort level.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Ruth help with?
What is her general therapy style?
How long has she been practicing?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages are supported and can international clients work with her?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I start working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.