Mrs Ruth Crawford Counsellor

Ruth is a counsellor with over 12 years of experience working with young people, couples and families. She has worked in school and hospital settings, not-for-profit organizations and disability and mining sectors providing counselling and mental health support. Ruth has a genuine and relational approach as a person-centered counsellor. She is passionate about mental health and wellbeing and works from an integrative and eclectic approach, including Internal Family Systems, Narrative, Somatic and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to best meet the clients need. Her compassionate and sensitive manner creates an environment in which people from all backgrounds feel safe, helping to enable them to process and find meaning in painful experiences, discovering new possibilities and resources, and developing a greater understanding and awareness in one’s sense of self. She works from a trauma informed approach, providing counselling for young people, couples, and individuals in various areas, including grief and loss, trauma, relationship, identity, stress management, depression and anxiety. Ruth holds qualifications in family therapy, psychotherapy and a Master of Counselling. She is a registered counsellor with Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and Psychotherapy and Counselling Association of Australian (PACFA).