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CAITLIN RUIZ

Hey there! I’m Cait. I work with adolescents, young adults, and adults navigating the messy, complicated, and sometimes overwhelming parts of being human. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, trauma, relationship challenges, major life transitions, or simply feeling stuck, therapy can be a place to slow things down, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and find a path forward.

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My experience working with clients across the lifespan has shaped my commitment to trauma-informed, client-centered care. I especially enjoy working with teens and young adults, trauma survivors, and adults navigating changing relationships, responsibilities, identities, and unexpected life challenges. I also enjoy working with children and families, including helping parents better understand what may be happening underneath a child’s emotions or behavior and finding ways to strengthen connection at home.

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My style is warm, authentic, collaborative, and often includes humor. I want therapy to feel like a place where you can actually be yourself—not somewhere you have to perform, say the “right” thing, or pretend you have everything figured out. You don’t need to come to therapy with a perfectly organized life story or even know where to start. We can figure that part out together.

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While I bring clinical training, tools, and perspective to our work, I believe you are the expert on your own life. I’m particularly drawn to approaches that recognize that healing involves more than our thoughts. Our bodies, nervous systems, relationships, and past experiences can all influence how we respond to the world around us.

Depending on your needs, I may incorporate CBT, DBT-informed skills, mindfulness, strengths-based interventions, somatic approaches, and IFS-informed concepts into our work. Rather than trying to fit every client into one particular model, I believe therapy should be individualized to the person sitting in front of me.

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With younger clients, I recognize that sitting down and talking directly about feelings isn’t always easy—or even the most helpful place to start. Play, creativity, and relationship-based approaches can give children and teens different ways to communicate, process their experiences, build skills, and feel understood. I also value working alongside parents and caregivers when appropriate so that progress can extend beyond the therapy session.

Above all, I want my clients to feel genuinely seen, respected, and supported. Therapy can be a place to make room for the hard things, celebrate progress, better understand patterns that may no longer be serving you, and get curious about the parts of yourself that may have been misunderstood. And when the moment calls for it, we can laugh together too.

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You’re allowed to be a work in progress. We all are.

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