About
Ruth Hazelton
GHGI MBASRT MBACP
Relate Certificate Couple Counselling
HG Diploma Psychotherapy
Ruth is an experienced counsellor and psychotherapist, specialising in working with couples and individuals experiencing relationship problems. She initially trained as a Relate counsellor and has worked extensively with Relate in Wales and Shropshire. Ruth also has a Diploma in Human Givens Psychotherapy, has trained to work specifically with young people, and is in the process of completing her Diploma in Psychosexual Therapy.
Ruth is now running a successful private practice in Aberystwyth where she works with people suffering from a wide range of problems. This year she will join Mindfields College as a tutor and will be running a series of workshops for therapists, building skills to enable them to work successfully with couples, and widening their understanding of relationship problems.
"I have four children, now all teenagers or older, from two marriages. I am now married for the third time and have three stepchildren. My two youngest children and my husband's youngest son split their time between our house and their other parents. We have two dogs and a rabbit that live with us full time.
I have first hand experience of being in difficult or unsuccessful relationships. I found out how it feels to be a single parent on benefits with no particular idea of what happens next. I understand the confusion and negativity that often surrounds relationship breakdown and the difficulties facing children caught in the middle.
I now have a great relationship, which has robustly stood the test of stepfamily complications. I have learnt, both through my personal life and from working with other couples, that it is always possible to work things out, even when the problems seem insurmountable: 'Where there's a will, there's a way.'
I have also come to understand that the most simple solutions are often the most effective. Making small changes and sticking to them is a strategy far more likely to succeed than making grand gestures that cannot be sustained.
My clients have taught me that it is absolutely essential to keep communication channels wide open and to demonstrate trust and respect towards each other. Good relationships can be made stronger, and broken ones healed and rebuilt, provided all those involved are motivated to try."
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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
"I believe that the science of brainsex and its associated neuropsychology is vital to us all, no matter who we are or what we do. This new science provides us with the tools to really improve how we live, how we learn and teach, and how we love and interact with our fellow human beings.
The brain is not set in stone. We know from brain imaging research that it can be rewired in all sorts of ways. I see my calling now to act as an assimilator and disseminator of all this scientific and neuropsychological knowledge, both established and evolving. Brainsex Matters, with its different disciplines, has been created as the focal point which makes this wealth of information accessible to all."
