Ruti Ingerman received her Master of Social Work from Wilfred Laurier University in 2008. She is a registered social worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.

Ruti has over 15 years clinical experience working as an individual and family therapist. Ruti started her career in mental health in Israel as an expressive arts therapist (M.A.), working with children and parents in the school system. While studying social work in Canada Ruti completed her practicum placements at Humber River Health hospital in the mental health inpatient and outpatient units and at Jewish Family and Child Service. Since then, Ruti worked at a few children’s mental health agencies providing counselling to culturally diverse children, youth, young adults and parents. Ruti also provided individual and family therapy to adults in private practice.  

Ruti has extensive experience supporting clients with depression, anxiety, trauma, loss, grief, life transitions, relocation and immigration, relational and learning difficulties, parenting, family conflict, sexual orientation and gender identity. 

Ruti’s approach is integrative and includes: Psychodynamic therapy, expressive arts therapy, internal family systems (IFS), solution focused therapy (SFT), narrative therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), emotion focused skills training (EFST) and collaborative problem solving (CPS) within a trauma and attachment informed practice. Ruti brings her lived experience as a queer immigrant parent to practice and her style is warm, companionate and collaborative.