About Ruth Thomas and Cardiff Counselling

Hello, I'm Ruth

I set up Cardiff Counselling in 2013, whilst working part time for a preventative social services service, and a children’s mental health charity. Developing Cardiff Counselling alongside my other roles, I have grown to become the main counselling provider for two organisations as well as seeing clients privately through the Bacp directory and the Counselling directory. Growing the service, I changed Cardiff Counselling to a limited company in 2025 and became fulltime employed under Cardiff Counselling Ltd.

Through Cardiff Counselling Ltd, I provide counselling support for the employees of a large housing association, males and females, office based and trade based, and have run Stress Awareness Training for teams in the company.

Additionally, I run a therapeutic service in a local primary school, supporting children, school staff and parents and carers, and I am affiliated with a local charity Big Moose, a mental health and suicide prevention charity, as a sessional counsellor.

Throughout my counselling sessions the autonomy of the client is key and I am lead by the needs of the client. Through this process I have seen my clients change and grow during the sessions and no longer struggle with stress, anxiety and depression.

My Background

I qualified has a Bacp approved integrative counsellor in 2010.

Previously my background and training has been in behaviour therapy and modification, while working at a behaviour treatment school in the States for 6 years. The school provided support, guidance and education for children and young people from 5 years of age up to 21 years of age.

Returning to Wales, I began working and managing a preventative social services service, working with parents/careers and their children to prevent family breakdown and children going into care. During this time I trained in and co-facilitated various parenting programs – Webster Stratton, PAFT (Parent As First Teachers), PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies), Coping with Young Children, Strengthening Families, Restorative Approaches and Motivational Interviewing.

Working closely with the families and individuals, has taught me the importance of giving the individual the space to connect to their inner voice to be able to express their worries and concerns in a safe non-judgmental space to enable change.

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