Bellaire, Texas 77401
Phone: 713-464-4243
Cell: 832-858-8918
About Ruth
I believe that the healing process of emotional wounds is innate but can be derailed due to particular life experiences. The therapist's role is to provide a safe and stimulating relational environment to allow the client's tensions to be fully expressed, explored and understood.
The therapist and client become intimate partners who work together intellectually and
emotionally to develop and try out more satisfying ways of living (improved "psychic software").
The therapeutic matrix becomes a learning play-field for developing skills to reduce suffering and to increase the capacity to enjoy work, love and play.
Conducting psychoanalysis since 2002
Faculty at Houston Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute
Training and supervising psychotherapists
Board member of Houston Psychoanalytic Society:
Planning and organizing educational events
Training Emergency Services and Mental Health Professionals
Conducting of Critical Incident Stress Management
Since 1986
Private practice of Psychotherapy including:
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Solution Focused Psychotherapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy
- Couples Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Phillips Petroleum explosion
- NY City - September 11, 2001 (Military and Wall Street firms)
- The Columbia shuttle explosion
- Offshore crisis interventions (Gulf rigs)
- V.A.and comprehensive mental health center (Israel):
community mental health outreach and rigorous
work with families and individuals.
Military experience providing support and education
to families and soldiers to mitigate impact of combat
trauma.
License: TX Lcsw #10893
Post Graduate Specialty Studies at the
Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute:
- Psychoanalysis
- Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Child & Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Ericksonian Strategic Psychotherapy and Hypnosis
(2 Years Certificate Studies at The Houston Institute For Ericksonian Hypnosis)
Family and Marriage Psychotherapy
EMDR Advanced Certificate
Trainer of Critical Incident Stress Management (Certificate)
Master of Social Work, University of Houston:
Including Clinical Internship at Baylor College of Medicine Psychiatric Clinic
Bachelor of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professional Affiliations:
- NASW-Licensed Master Social Worker
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
- Registered Trainer of CISM
- International Critical Incident Stress Foundation
- American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
- International Psychoanalytical Organization
- Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Society
- The American Psychoanalytic Association
