Ruth Ruthven
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
UKCP Accredited / GPTI Member
About Me
Experience, understanding and a genuine interest in people
I am a UKCP Accredited Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, fully insured and currently accepting new adult clients in person or online.
Professional Background
Before training as a therapist, I worked in primary education, laterally establishing an educational consultancy business working with educational and government organisations, museums, science centres, visitor attractions and businesses across Scotland.
My therapeutic experience includes work at the Tom Allan Centre, Glasgow, Glasgow University Counselling & Psychological Services and First Psychology Edinburgh & Borders.
I trained in Gestalt psychotherapy at the Edinburgh Gestalt Institute and have, for the last number of years, been working with clients in private practice. I continue to engage in ongoing professional development in areas such as trauma, attachment and relational process.
Professional Memberships
I am a fully accredited member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and a member of the Gestalt Psychotherapy & Training Institute (GPTI).
Psychotherapy
Awareness
Making sense of our experience
There are times when it helps to have a space that is just for you. Somewhere you can talk freely, feel heard and begin to understand what is happening in your life, whether something is troubling you now or has been with you for a long time.
Relationship
Understanding ourselves and others
Our relationships shape how we experience ourselves and the world around us. Psychotherapy offers an opportunity to explore familiar patterns, understand how we relate to others and discover more about what we need and what matters to us.
Change
Finding new possibilities
Change doesn't always come from trying to be different. Sometimes it begins with understanding ourselves more fully. Through greater awareness and understanding, new perspectives and possibilities can emerge, allowing us to make choices that feel more genuinely our own.
Thinking about starting therapy?
Contact me for more information
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Practicalities
Sessions
Sessions can be arranged on a short-term, long-term or open-ended basis depending on what you need.
Parking
Parking is available nearby at Greenside Car Park, Kingsmeadows Car Park and Edinburgh Road Car Park. On-street parking is available too in many of the town's side roads. All are within a few minutes' walk away.
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My upcoming schedule
1 April
London
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8 April
Manchester
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15 April
Birmingham
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22 April
Edinburgh
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Contact me
Telephone: 07841 638 975
E-mail: info@ruthruthven.com
Address: Floor 1, Chambers House, 72 High Street, Peebles, EH45 8SW