About Ruth
Ruth Anthony-McClary is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey with 30 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or life changes. She talks with clients about mood, self-esteem, relationships, parenting concerns, grief, and career strain in a straightforward way.
She treats each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are shaped to fit what the individual needs rather than a one-size plan.
Background and approach
Ruth focuses on practical coping skills and ways to manage painful memories and emotions. Her work draws on somatic ideas that link the body and feelings, attachment-based thinking about relationships, and client-centered listening. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques and mindfulness practices are used when helpful to change unhelpful thoughts and build calmer routines.
Ruth has supported people facing long-term stress, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and difficult transitions. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment challenges, caregiver stress, chronic pain, body image, and communication problems. Sessions can include talking, skill-building, grounding practices, and gentle attention to bodily responses.
The plan evolves from session to session based on what proves useful. Ruth aims to help people find clearer options and greater steadiness in daily life.
How Ruth’s approaches translate to online sessions
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body holds stress and strong emotions. In online sessions this can mean guided grounding, breathing, and noticing bodily signals to help manage anxiety, trauma reactions, or chronic tension.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and connection. Online conversations focus on identifying these patterns and practicing new ways of relating and communicating that feel safer and more effective.
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what she hears, and follows the client’s pacing. This helps build clarity about goals and keeps the work focused on what matters most to the client.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to try methods and see what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. These options can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, use short check-ins between meetings, or continue work during life transitions. The range of formats helps people maintain continuity of care and try different ways of connecting with a licensed professional.
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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