Ula Rutan, LPC

Ula Rutan is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Michigan. She brings ten years of counseling experience and a relaxed, down-to-earth manner to sessions. Her aim is simple: help people feel seen, heard, and understood while they work toward clearer goals.

Ula uses everyday language in sessions and keeps the pace comfortable. She draws from several approaches to match what each person needs. Typical concerns she addresses include anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, trauma, and work or career questions.

Her training includes a master’s degree in community counseling from Siena Heights University. Over the past decade she has helped people navigate family conflict, communication problems, self-esteem struggles, and stress-related issues. Her background also includes work on adoption and foster care challenges, attachment issues, and postpartum depression.

In practice she blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness techniques, motivational interviewing, and client-centered methods. That lets her use practical tools like thought tracking, coping skills, and values-based goal setting alongside listening and empathy.

Sessions are focused on small, workable steps that fit into a person’s life. Ula aims to help people build skills they can use between meetings and to create clearer direction when life feels overwhelming.

She welcomes conversations about goals and options, and helps each person shape a plan that matches their needs and pace.

How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds shape current reactions. It can be useful for people facing trust, closeness, or attachment-related struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an accepting, nonjudgmental listener who helps people find their own solutions and build confidence.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and focus on what helps most in day-to-day life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins and flexible support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use methods that suit personal needs and rhythms.