About Corsham Counselling
Hello, I’m Ruth
For two decades, I worked in the dynamic, but demanding media industry, in multi-channel advertising sales, marketing and business development.
I have had direct experience of the challenges of maintaining a commercially viable operation while fostering a healthy organisational culture. I've also personally experienced the detrimental effects of an imbalance, as well as the profound positive impact on both personal well-being and professional performance when that balance is achieved.
In 2016, I embarked on a new path, training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with Bath College of Psychotherapy and Counselling. Alongside my day job in business development, to support my counselling training I volunteered at Developing Health and Independence, offering short-term therapy to clients with substance use histories.
Since graduating in 2021, I've established my private practice at Corsham Wellbeing Clinic, where I provide counselling and mindfulness training. Certified by the UK College of Mindfulness Meditation, I integrate mindfulness into my practice and deliver successful workshops.
I'm passionate about the positive impact of mindfulness. Drawing upon my business experience, I've developed specialised mindfulness workshops to enhance team happiness and performance in the workplace.
My Training
I hold an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling and as a member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) I work in accordance with their guidance and ethical framework.
I also hold a mindfulness teaching qualification awarded by The UK College of Mindful Meditation and recognised by The British Psychological Society.
Integrative counselling looks at the whole person, your mental, physical and emotional needs and the impact of the world around you.
The humanistic viewpoint encourages people to think about their feelings and take responsibility for their thoughts and actions. The emphasis is on self-development and achieving your highest potential.
I have studied different theorists, tools and modes of working, so that I can tailor an individual approach for you, rather than try and fit you into my way of working.
My approach
The experience I have enjoyed as a counsellor has strengthened my belief that people are truly incredible and the inbuilt resilience and hope we have, despite everything that’s thrown at us is amazing. It is there, if well hidden. It can just take some time to coax it out from the safety of our understandable resistance, defence and fear.
I have discovered that hope can push beyond the fear under the right conditions, and those conditions can be provided by the relationship with your Counsellor. The relationship is central to the process.
Knowledge of theory, different models, techniques and tools have little influence without them being drawn upon by someone you trust. Not someone who tries to rescue you, who tries to step in and takeover and take on, but someone who hears you, without judgement, without labelling right or wrong, without trying to steer you away from sharing the parts of yourself which feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. The relationship alone can be transformational.
When you truly connect with your Counsellor, it can feel so relieving, to find someone who really hears you, who walks alongside and shares some of the burden. That connection becomes the anchor that enables you to feel safe when possibly at your most vulnerable.
“We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”
— Carl Rogers