Ruth Dixon, BACP

Ruth Dixon is a counsellor who uses psychodynamic ideas to help people understand patterns that affect their everyday life. She has 20 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression and addictions. Ruth aims to listen with respect and sensitivity while people talk about what matters most to them.

Ruth helps people look at long-standing patterns in relationships and family life that can feed into anxiety, low self-esteem and anger. She talks through how past experiences and attachment issues can show up now. This can include difficulties linked to grief, trauma and abuse, or struggles with eating, sleeping and coping with life changes.

Sessions focus on what people want to change and why those patterns persist. Ruth tailors conversations and any longer-term plan to each person. She works with issues such as abandonment, codependency, communication problems and blended family tensions when these arise in therapy.

Her background includes helping people manage addiction and recovery-related challenges, and supporting those dealing with serious health concerns such as cancer. Ruth uses her experience to offer a steady space for people to make sense of painful events and to build new ways of coping.

Ruth practises in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are carried out in English and she does not take international clients. To begin, people follow the service's start process and schedule according to availability.

Psychodynamic work and remote counselling

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on how past relationships and early experiences shape feelings and behaviour today. It helps people notice repeating patterns, understand hidden emotions, and make different choices in relationships and daily life.

Ruth also draws on longer-term reflective conversation to explore attachment issues, abandonment themes and family of origin concerns. This approach can be useful for people dealing with grief, trauma, addiction or ongoing stress who want to see how earlier life events influence current struggles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Ruth will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and will shape the way sessions run to match those needs. That collaborative process helps decide how psychodynamic ideas can be used alongside practical steps for coping.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to keep continuity during life changes, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and help people maintain momentum between appointments.