Ruth Overington

I offer outdoor, online or telephone counselling. 

We are all unique, and so are our reasons for starting therapy. I believe that counselling gives us a chance to build a better understanding of ourselves and our relationships. I offer a confidential, empathic service to enable you to explore your issues and worries, whilst supporting you to recognise and build on your own strengths and resources.

I am an integrative counsellor, this means that I am able to draw my theoretical knowledge from the counselling approaches of person-centred, cognitive behavioral (CBT), and psychodynamic.

I work with this knowledge, offering counselling that emphasises the importance of the therapeutic relationship between client and counsellor, whilst using skills and techniques that are appropriate for each individual.

The counselling provisions that I provide are listed below:

Online and Telephone Counselling

This can be both short or long term, supporting and facilitating you to cope with life changes, overwhelming feelings and transitions. 

Walk and Talk Counselling

A counselling session that takes place at a suitable location outside. These sessions take a similar format to indoor work, in terms of the focus being on the client’s therapeutic work. But with the advantage of being in the natural world.

Eco Therapeutic Approach counselling

I can also provide counselling that is embedded in nature, focusing on your own connection to the natural world, working with specific nature-based techniques and exercises, I have developed my Eco therapy practice based on the concept that we are not separate to nature, but part of it.

Psychological educational consultation and support for parents

Due to my extensive experience and qualifications in working with children and young people, I can provide psycho-educational consultation and support for parents.

I offer supervision to qualified counsellors, counselling students, and to practitioners from other professional backgrounds.

I can provide supervision on the telephone, online or outside at suitably assessed locations.

I am an integrative therapist, with a person-centred approach to my supervision practice. My original Diploma was psychodynamic, I now use this theory to inform my practice, but not in process.

I aim to provide my supervisee's with a reflective, supportive and ethically mindful space. I place an emphasis on the importance of realness and compassion in my work, promoting a human approach with strong professional boundaries.

Please contact me to discuss booking a free 30-minute meeting to discuss your supervision needs.