About
A therapist for women who are holding too much.
Real, holistic, and trauma-informed support for fertility struggles, postpartum anxiety, and everything in between.
We are the nurturers. It’s a role we carry with love, but also a mental load that no one else quite sees.
Some days, that load is manageable. Other days, it feels like a heavy, wet blanket, suffocating and hard to shake.
It doesn’t have to stay that way.
As a trauma-informed therapist for women, I offer somatic healing and nervous system support to help you move out of survival mode, and into something steadier, more spacious, and more sustainable.
A note from the founder
Hi, I’m Ruth Fong, Therapist for Women
This isn’t therapy with a clipboard and a blank stare.
It’s real, relational, and rooted in the kind of care I wish more women had access to. Whether we’re sitting in a cozy office or walking side-by-side under the trees, this is your space to find yourself again. The version of you that feels full, patient, happy, and in control.
I’m not a “smile and nod” therapist. I show up fully. Warm, real, and ready, with a gentle hand, a good cup of tea, and a toolkit of practical strategies to ensure you are equipped to calm your nervous system and your life.
I’ll walk beside you, free of judgment, full of compassion, and remind you that you’re not alone. Not in this season. Not ever.
Ruth xo
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Hi, I’m Ruth, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), trauma and perinatal specialist, certified integrative health coach, and mother of three, navigating the mess and magic of modern womanhood right alongside you.
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Before I became a therapist, I worked as a physical therapist. I was trained to treat the body, but I quickly found myself drawn to the emotional pain my patients carried. The trauma that stalled healing. The anxiety no one knew how to name. The grief that lived in their bones. I wanted to help, but I didn’t yet have the tools.
So I went back to grad school and earned my Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy, specialising in trauma and nervous system regulation. I immersed myself in EMDR, IFS, somatic therapies… every modality I could find that offered deeper, more sustainable healing.
Then, in 2016, I became a mother, and everything shifted again.
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My own entry into motherhood was beautiful and disorienting all at once. A traumatic birth. Postpartum anxiety. The quiet unraveling of identity that no one talks about. That experience didn’t just shape my life, it deepened my work.
I saw how seamlessly trauma and the perinatal experience intertwine, and how the transition into motherhood often carries both big “T” and small “t” traumas. And how desperately women need support that holds all of it: the body, the brain, the heartbreak, the identity shift.
That’s why I also became a certified Integrative Health Coach, to support the whole woman, not just the symptoms.
Qualifications & Training
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Certified Integrative Health Coach, with a background in physical therapy and over a decade of clinical experience supporting women through trauma, motherhood, and major life transitions.
This work is always evolving, and I’m deeply committed to staying at the forefront of trauma-informed, integrative care.
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MS in Marriage and Family Therapy – Fuller School of Psychology
BS (Hons) in Physiotherapy – University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Certified Integrative Health Coach – Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN)
Certified Enneagram Coach
Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) – Postpartum Support International
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IFS Level 1 (Internal Family Systems)
EMDR Levels 1 & 2 + Attachment-Focused & Perinatal EMDR
Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) Levels 1 & 2
Restoration Therapy | Trauma-Focused CBT | MAP | Seeking Safety
Gottman Bringing Baby Home (Couples & Parenting)
Treating Complex Trauma with IFS (Dr. Frank Anderson)
No two women are the same, and neither is their healing. That’s why our work is tailored to you.
As a therapist for women, I use a blend of proven therapeutic modalities, nervous system work, and holistic tools to support your whole self: mind, body, and emotions. Here’s what that might look like:
HOW WE HELP
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EMDR
To process trauma and reduce emotional reactivity.
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IFS
To explore and tend to different parts of yourself with compassion.
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Somatic Therapy (TRM)
To reconnect with your body and release stored stress.
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Mind-Body Coaching & Integrative Wellness
To support hormonal health, energy levels, emotional resilience and somatic symptoms such as brain fog.
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Attachment and Psychodynamic Work
To help bring insight into how past patterns shape current relationships.
You’re not too sensitive. You’re not too much. You’re just tired of pretending everything’s fine.
As a therapist for women, I’m here to tend to you,with care that sees the whole of who you are.