Ruth Hickmon, LMHC

LMHC in Florida with six years' experience, Ruth Hickmon helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma, grief, ADHD, and self-esteem concerns. She works with adults on parenting challenges, intimacy problems, and coping with life changes. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings.

Ruth favors clear, goal-oriented conversations. She combines Client-Centered approaches with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness tools. That means she listens for what matters to the client, offers ways to test new thinking patterns, and teaches simple awareness exercises to reduce reactivity.

In sessions she helps people name emotions, spot unhelpful habits, and try small experiments to change them. For relationship concerns she draws on the Gottman Method to address communication patterns and rebuild connection. For motivation and behavior change she uses Motivational Interviewing to clarify values and next steps.

Ruth also works with people dealing with trauma and loss by pacing work to what the person can manage. She includes practical coping skills for panic and stress, and addresses caregiver stress, control issues, and problems tied to family of origin.

Her practice uses short-term techniques alongside deeper work when needed. People leaving therapy with her often have clearer plans for managing daily stress, new tools for handling anxiety, and concrete communication strategies for relationships. To begin, clients complete a brief questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

How her approaches work in remote sessions