Dr. Ruth Alice Morgan-Jones, BACP
Warm, experienced counsellor for parenting and relationships
Book with Ruth- Years in practice
- 40
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Grief
About Ruth
Dr. Ruth Alice Morgan-Jones brings four decades of professional experience to her practice. She trained as a social worker in the United States and later completed a PhD at the London School of Economics.
She is a BACP member and has worked in both charity leadership and independent practice in the United Kingdom. Her background includes founding and running a charity that supported people with special needs and their families.
Background and approach
She has a diploma in Family Therapy and has provided diversity training for charities and agencies for the past ten years. Her PhD research became a book on how hearing loss affects family life, and she uses her lipreading skills when needed. In sessions she combines a number of therapeutic ideas.
She draws on attachment-based thinking, Jungian ideas, client-centred principles, narrative techniques and psychodynamic understandings. This combination helps her respond to relationship, parenting and grief concerns in ways that match each person’s needs. Her work often focuses on relationship and family strains, parenting challenges, loss and stress, and issues linked to identity such as LGBT matters.
She also supports people facing mood difficulties, trauma and problems with self-esteem or eating and sleeping. She prefers a collaborative style that aims to help people gain clarity and practical next steps. Sessions are presented plainly and respectfully, with attention to cultural differences and the particular pressures of family life.
What Ruth works with
Everything Ruth lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Ruth helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Ruth lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. It looks at patterns of closeness and distance and can help with parenting dilemmas and long-standing relationship worries.Client-centred counselling emphasises the person in front of the counsellor. It uses careful listening and empathy to help people find their own solutions, which can be useful for stress, low self-esteem and life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose techniques that match a person's goals, needs and preferences. That may mean emphasising attachment ideas one week and narrative or client-centred ways another week.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer to write. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and daily life, and allow access for international clients and those in different parts of the UK.
Questions people ask about Ruth
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, anger, stress and anxiety, plus identity and trauma-related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, mixing attachment, Jungian, client-centred, narrative and psychodynamic ideas to suit each person.
How much experience does she have?
She has around 40 years of experience, including founding and running a charity that supported people with special needs and their families.
What professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a BACP member and practices in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are offered and can international clients take part?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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