Ruth Chidambaram , BACP

Ruth Chidambaram is a BACP accredited counsellor and clinical supervisor with more than 20 years of professional experience supporting couples, individuals, students, and families. She draws on long-standing practice to address relationship strains, communication breakdowns, and difficulties with trust, including issues arising from infidelity, affairs, and betrayal. Ruth works sensitively with couples and family members facing separation, divorce, commitment questions, and the practical and emotional challenges that follow these transitions.

Her work also encompasses the emotional impact of changing physical health, bereavement and loss, and broader family problems that affect daily life and wellbeing. Ruth offers practical help for parenting concerns, intimacy-related issues, and the stresses of caregiving, while attending to complex areas such as trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. As a BACP accredited practitioner - accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which recognises adherence to professional standards - she combines clinical experience with a focus on evidence-based techniques to support clients through difficult life changes.

Ruth aims to create a collaborative therapeutic relationship that helps people explore patterns, build coping skills, and move toward clearer decision-making. Her practice is informed by many years of working with diverse family forms and life-stage challenges, including blended families, attachment concerns, and illness-related adjustment.

Evidence-based approaches for online relationship and loss work

Ruth uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to relationship and family concerns as well as grief and trauma. One common approach she employs focuses on skills-based work - practical strategies to improve communication, manage strong emotions, and develop coping tools for day-to-day challenges. This helps clients who are dealing with communication breakdowns, parenting stresses, or mood-related difficulties.

She also applies relational and attachment-informed work that explores patterns in couples and family interactions, helping people understand recurring dynamics and rebuild trust following betrayals or separation. This kind of work can support those facing intimacy issues, commitment doubts, or family-of-origin problems.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ruth works with each person or couple to identify goals, try suitable techniques, and adjust the plan as needs and preferences emerge, so the therapy evolves with the client rather than following a fixed script.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules and differing comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from home, and fit therapy into everyday life while working with licensed professionals and therapists who can adapt methods to an online setting.