Coping with Anxiety during COVID-19
This talk addressing the topic of coping with anxiety during the pandemic. It focuses on how natural it is to feel alarmed but to not allow our bodies to remain in this state for too…
Coping during COVID – Processing grief – Interview for Sanctuary Ministries
On grief and keeping a soft-heart during the COVID crisis Ruth is interviewed by Daniel Whitehead, of Sanctuary Ministries, helping equip the church during these intensely stressful days. Ruth addresses the issue of grief and the…
Interview with Ruth by Dr Sarah Penwarden.
Interview with Ruth by Dr Sarah Penwarden, who teaches Integrative Practice in the Bachelor of Counselling degree at Laidlaw College. This interview is framed around these questions about Incarnational practices in Ruth’s counselling work. If…
Newsletter 4: Nov- Dec. 2018
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Very warm greetings to you as we head in to the summer season and the year ending. With this time of year there is a sense of looking back and…
Newsletter 3 – Sept 2018
Dear Colleague I hope this season of Spring, with all its undulating weather patterns, ushers in a breath of new hope into you and the precious ones you journey with. Here is what I have…
Newsletter 2 – July 2018
Dear ones, Where has the month of July gone?!? Can you believe that we are already half way through 2018? I hope as you reflect on the first half of this year, that you are…
newsletter 1 – June 2018
Welcome to my very first newsletter of my new chapter in life! This marks a landmark for me, since leaving my job at Laidlaw in March, and setting up my new company: Trinity Initiatives Counselling…
The role of corrective emotional experiences in the counsellor-client attachment
AM - The role corrective emotion BJGC
Article for Stimulus – the New Zealand journal of christian thought
Stimulus Vol 20 Is 2_Freudian Slips_McConnell
Stories of therapy, stories of faith
Designed for and by love - Book Chapter - R McConnell