About Ruth
Ruth Dombrowski is a licensed social worker practicing in Texas. She brings 26 years of clinical experience and works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, grief, and changes in life circumstances. Ruth holds LISW and LCSW credentials and draws on practical therapies to help people regain balance.
Her approach is straightforward and focused on the present. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions involve clear strategies, short-term tools, and attention to emotional patterns that keep problems going. Ruth blends talk work with evidence-informed methods. She uses attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address connection and attachment concerns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to shift thinking and behavior in daily life. People come for help with issues like depression, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related struggles, parenting strain, sleep and eating problems, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with identity and LGBT matters, body image, and sexual expression such as BDSM and kink in a nonjudgmental way.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Ruth works with clients to set clear goals and track progress. Practical tools and emotional processing are balanced so people leave sessions with something to try between meetings.
How Ruth’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and ongoing bonds shape how people relate now. It helps with patterns of trust, closeness, and worry in relationships and is useful when connection feels difficult.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches clear strategies for changing unhelpful thinking and for building new habits that reduce anxiety and depression.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to name and shift the emotions that drive relationship conflict and distance. It helps people communicate vulnerable feelings and rebuild connection.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ruth will talk with clients about goals, try methods that match their needs, and adjust the focus as therapy progresses. The plan is tailored together rather than fixed in advance.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that helps. Phone sessions are good when video is not possible or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, and ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Texas
- Languages
- English