Systemic Therapy for Individuals, couples and families, which research shows is helpful for children, young people, adults and older adults experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties and interpersonal issues and circumstances. Helping clients to better understand their beliefs, patterns, and communication styles to help understand each other and find shared solutions.
EMDR used to naturally heal from trauma and life experiences which negatively impact on peoples everyday lives.
Healing Through Presence
I practice with a trauma-informed lens, viewing our work as a collaborative partnership. I believe that fostering an honest, gentle, and reliable connection is vital in creating a safe, non-judgemental space where every emotion and lived experience can be respected. My aim is to walk alongside you to understand your specific world and the personal meanings you hold.
As a systemic psychotherapist, I am curious about how your past experiences and relationships, along with the wider stresses of your current environment, shape the challenges you face today. Together, we will explore these connections to find a way forward that feels right for you.
My approach integrates various systemic models, blending clinical knowledge with deep care for the natural cycles of the mind and body. This offers a grounded path toward emotional balance and lasting well-being.
I am committed to an inclusive practice, consciously reflecting on my own perspectives and welcoming your feedback to ensure you feel truly supported and heard throughout our journey.
About Me
Welcome. I am Ruth, a UKCP-accredited Systemic Family Psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner, also registered with the NMC as a mental health nurse. At Systemic Touchstone Therapies, I provide a calm and reassuring space for individuals, couples, and families across the UK, offering all sessions through a secure online platform.
My work is rooted in a trauma-informed, systemic approach, where we look together at the wider patterns and relationships in your life. Alongside my private practice—born from a desire to foster balance for my own family—I continue to serve within the NHS. I have experience supporting those navigating neurodiversity, relationship distress, and mental health journeys including eating disorders, personality disorders and trauma. I am here to work collaboratively with you, ensuring that even when things feel overwhelming, you have a safe, grounded, and non-judgemental place to find your way forward.
I belong to both the neurodivergent and LGBTQI+ communities, and I warmly welcome people of all backgrounds and identities. My goal is to work alongside you to adapt our sessions to your unique needs, ensuring you feel respected and understood. Please let me know how I can best support you—we can also explore this together as we build our therapeutic relationship.
Ways of working in Therapy with Me
Individual systemic psychotherapy focuses on understanding patterns within relationships and the wider context of a person’s life. It can support people to make sense of how past and present experiences connect, and how this may shape the way they relate to themselves and others. This can open up new ways of understanding and new possibilities for change.
Individual Therapy
Family Therapy Sessions
Couples Therapy
Family therapy enables family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.
Couple therapy gives you and your loved one space to consider how to understand and reconnect emotionally to each other, whilst learning to communicate more effectively and navigate life changes.
EMDR
(Eye Movement
Desensitization Reprocessing)
session
EMDR is an evidence based therapy designed to use our natural healing ability to overcome significant life events that continue to have a negative influence on our lives.
For more information please visit www.emdrassociation.org.uk
Therapy Fees
Investing in your emotional health is a step toward lasting balance. Here is a guide to my professional therapy services and fees.
Individual Therapy
Personalized sessions focused on your growth and emotional well-being.
Couples Therapy
£65 per 60-minute session
Support for partners looking to improve communication and connection.
£75 per 60-minute session
Family Therapy Sessions
Systemic sessions to help families navigate challenges together.
EMDR Therapy
£85 per 60-90 -minute session
(Generally, when working with families and couples, it is useful to have longer appointments of 90 minutes, less frequently)
Specialized trauma-focused therapy for processing emotional distress.
£65 per 60-minute session
Cancellation of sessions with less than 48 hours’ notice will incur the full fee.
Qualifications & Professional Registrations
Registered with the Association for Family Therapy & Systemic Psychotherapy (AFTSP) and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I am also registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
BSc Mental Health Nursing
MBT practitioner (Mentalization Based Therapy)
DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy)
EMDR practitioner
MSc in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
Connect with me
Email: systemictouchstonetherapies@outlook.com
If you have any questions or wish to book a free 30 minute consultation to see if I am the right therapist for you, please send me an email with your contact details and when the best time would be for us to connect either over the phone or virtually.
When registering, please read the therapy contract below and complete the relevant following form to provide your name, address, age, and GP details. This information supports safe practice, safeguarding responsibilities, and continuity of care.
If you are accessing couple or family therapy please provide details for each participant.
Providing accurate and up-to-date information helps ensure appropriate support can be offered and that legal and ethical responsibilities are met.
Client Policies & Safety
Your trust and safety are at the very heart of our therapeutic journey together.
I am a member of the UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy) and AFTSP (Association for Family Therapy & Systemic Psychotherapy). The high standards of the UKCP register are accredited by the Professional Standards Authority. I am bound by these professional bodies' codes of ethics and practice and subject to their complaint procedures.
Confidentiality - The content of our sessions is confidential but there are limits of confidentiality to ensure clients safety, should i be concerned by any risk or safeguarding issues i will always try to speak to you about these during the session, whilst there might be times where i would need to breach confidentiality should you or someone else is at risk of harm.
If I work with family members/individuals separately and together I will not share information with you without gaining consent first. Parents need to appreciate that their child(ren) may need a confidential space where information is not shared, and this is similar for couples.
Supervision of my practice - To ensure your safety, monitor my practice and in line with my professional registration, I receive regular clinical supervision but no identifying information about clients is shared with my supervisors.
Safeguarding - your well-being is my priority, and I strictly adhere to professional data protection guidelines to keep your personal information secure. It is important to me that you feel heard, respected, and reassured that your privacy is honored with the utmost care and compassion.