Dr. Ruth Alice Morgan-Jones, BACP

Dr. Ruth Alice Morgan-Jones brings four decades of experience to her counselling work. She trained originally in social work and later completed a PhD at the London School of Economics. She is a senior accredited member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and has a diploma in family therapy.

Her path has included founding and running a charity supporting people with special needs and their relatives, and leading diversity training for charities and agencies for the past ten years. She researched the impact of hearing loss on family life and wrote a book on that topic, and she is an excellent lipreader. Ruth is writing a book about intercultural relationships and has a long-standing interest in that area.

In sessions she blends several approaches. Her grounding in psychodynamic ideas is paired with client-centred values, narrative thinking and influences from Jungian work. That mix is used to help people make sense of past patterns and choose different ways of living and relating.

Ruth aims to help people feel more empowered and to move to the next stage in their lives. She works with concerns such as relationship strain, grief, parenting pressures, stress, anxiety, and issues around identity and intimacy. She also offers support around long-term health challenges, caring responsibilities and major life transitions.

She practises from the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English. International clients are accepted, and she offers online video, phone, live chat and text-based options to suit different needs.

Therapeutic approaches and online working

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape the ways people relate now. It looks at patterns of closeness and avoidance, and can help with relationship strain, attachment worries and trust issues.

Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor offers attentive listening and supports the person to explore choices, values and what they want from life. This approach suits people wanting space to reflect and build self-trust.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, listen to preferences and try different ways of working to find what helps most. That process is collaborative and reviewed as progress is made.

Online sessions make it easier to fit counselling into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions or live chat suit quicker check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Text-based messaging can help people who prefer writing or need flexible timing. These options give practical flexibility without changing the aim of the therapy.