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If you need to recover from a loss or a trauma... If you want to sort through your feelings and options... If you are ready to make a change... I may be the therapist who can help you. I have experience in therapy with a wide variety of issues and special expertise in several areas. In addition to seeing therapy clients in my Seattle office, I do phone counseling with clients who are not in the Seattle area or who have difficult schedules.

Areas of Special Expertise

• I can help after a relationship breakup or divorce with counseling and focused exercises.
  I have taught workshops on  After the Breakup, Choosing Partners Differently, and Learning from Past Relationships.
  
  
• Incest, child abuse and neglect, alcoholic families (ACOA) are serious issues that often require therapy to recover from.
  We Did the Best We Could, which I co-authored with Lorie Dwinell, covers ways to sort through incest, abuse and dysfunctional childhoods and, if possible, heal relationships between children and parents.
  
  
• Lesbian issues including coming out, lesbian relationships, family, married lesbians, being new to town, etc.
  • I wrote Lesbian Crossroads to help lesbians at every stage of coming out.
  • I volunteer at the Seattle Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Center.
  • I taught Communication Skills for Intimate Relationships.
    
    
• Ecotherapy
  I wrote Wild Communion: Experiencing Peace in Nature.
  

For more details please see my Special Expertise page.

I frequently counsel clients in the areas of:

Contact Ruth by phone: 206-328-4402

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