About Ruth
Ruth Anthony-McClary offers steady, experienced support for adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, changes at work or in relationships, and mood challenges. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW practicing in New Jersey and draws on three decades of clinical experience. Ruth speaks plainly and aims to make each session feel understandable and practical for a worried parent or busy adult.
Ruth focuses on building a respectful, compassionate connection.
Background and approach
She listens to what matters most and shapes conversations around a person’s real-life goals. Sessions emphasize clear coping skills, stronger communication, and realistic steps toward feeling better day to day. Her approach blends talking therapies and skill-based work.
That can mean looking at how thoughts affect feelings, noticing relationship patterns, or practicing mindfulness to reduce stress. She adapts methods to fit each person rather than using one fixed plan. Ruth has helped people with trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and career-related strain.
She also supports those managing chronic illness, grief, and major life transitions. Her background includes long experience in clinical social work across varied settings. People who reach out should expect a calm, practical focus on current problems and realistic tools to try between sessions.
Ruth works with clients to set clear, achievable goals and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Approach and access: therapy that fits your life
Ruth commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak freely and set their own goals. This approach focuses on listening closely and responding to each person's priorities so sessions stay practical and relevant.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT offers straightforward tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress by changing patterns of thinking and behavior. Together these approaches help with relationship issues, grief, coping skills, and everyday mood struggles.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ruth will talk through options, check in about what feels useful, and adjust methods based on the client’s needs and preferences. The aim is to find strategies that fit daily life and the client's goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a closer face-to-face feel, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English