About Ula
Ula Rutan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with ten years of clinical experience. She presents as easy-going and down-to-earth and uses a calm, approachable style to help people feel seen and understood. Her goal is to empower clients to make practical changes that improve daily life and relationships.
She works with adults facing relationship strain, family challenges, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, stress, and grief. She also supports people managing anger, career transitions, parenting stresses, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related concerns.
Background and approach
Ula addresses practical problems like money and communication alongside emotional issues such as shame, isolation, and loss. Ula trained at Siena Heights University where she earned a master’s degree in community counseling. She draws on about a decade of hands-on experience in community and clinical settings.
That background shapes a straightforward way of working that focuses on what a person needs now. Her approach blends Attachment-Based methods, Client-Centered care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. In sessions she listens, asks useful questions, and helps clients try small, doable changes between meetings.
She frames work as a collaboration and adjusts methods to each person’s needs. People who prefer practical, gentle coaching with rooted therapeutic skills may find her style helpful. Ula encourages clear goals, real-world skills, and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that guide online care
Attachment-Based work focuses on how early relationships shape current behavior and feelings. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build more supported ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into small parts and teaches concrete skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which can ease overwhelm and improve focus.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life circumstances and then mix methods that fit those needs. That collaborative planning helps people try techniques that feel realistic and useful for their daily routines.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or shorter exchanges between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people use formats that match their energy and day-to-day demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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