Ruth is a sought-after counsellor with over 32 years’ experience of counselling adults, children, adolescents and families. She divides her time between private practice counselling, parenting consulting, supervision, delivering professional development seminars, conference speaking, academic research and writing. Ruth is qualified to the highest level and is a gifted and empathic counsellor, specialist supervisor, compelling speaker and teacher. Her counselling practice is based on Internal Family Systems integrated with Neufeld’s attachment based developmental model of healing. Her approach incorporates multi-dimensional healing (healing our relationship of our Self to our parts, between our parts and those of others as well as the spiritual dimension of attachment healing – to the Divine or transcendent/higher power/Wairua or our ancestors and our whenua/land and sense of belonging). She is multi-cultural (Third Culture Kid -TCK) having been born to Scottish Parents in the Amazon region of Brazil as well as having lived and worked in Scotland, Canada and New Zealand. Which adds to her understanding and empathy for the stress of transitions, cultural disorientation and immigration.
