- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Ula
Ula Rutan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan. She takes a warm, down-to-earth approach and aims to help people feel seen, heard, and understood. Ula uses straightforward language and a light sense of humor to make hard conversations easier to start.
She earned a master’s degree in community counseling from Siena Heights University and brings ten years of clinical experience. Much of her work has focused on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, and depression.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with grief, anger, life transitions, and career questions. Ula draws on several therapeutic methods to fit each person's needs. She blends attachment-focused ideas, mindfulness practices, cognitive behavioral strategies, and motivational interviewing when helpful.
The focus is practical change - learning new ways to communicate, manage stress, or handle parenting demands. Sessions emphasize collaboration and real steps you can try between meetings. Ula pays attention to family dynamics, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress when those topics come up.
She also addresses postpartum depression, ADHD-related struggles, and trauma responses. People who prefer a relaxed, conversational style may find her approach approachable. She aims to build trust quickly and help clients develop usable tools for everyday life.
If someone wants straightforward guidance on parenting or family stresses, she centers the work on practical changes and clearer communication.
What Ula works with
Everything Ula lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Ula helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Ula lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Ula commonly integrates attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral strategies in her online work. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps people improve how they relate to others. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses mindfulness practices to help clients manage stress and stay present during difficult moments. Mindfulness often involves brief exercises that teach attention to breath, body sensations, or immediate experience to reduce reactivity and increase calm during parenting or relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Ula collaborates with each person to identify goals and then tries methods that match those goals and preferences. Together they check what is helping and adjust the plan as needed so therapy feels useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy family life.
Questions people ask about Ula
What issues does she help address?
Ula works with relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, stress, and related problems like postpartum depression and ADHD struggles.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a down-to-earth, conversational style with a light sense of humor. Sessions focus on clear communication, practical steps, and collaborative problem solving.
How much experience does she have?
Ula has ten years of experience working with individuals and families on a wide range of concerns, including family conflict, trauma, and mood or anxiety symptoms.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, licensed in the state of Michigan and provides services from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English only and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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