Consultant Psychiatrists, Medical Psychotherapists

Dr Ruths is a Consultant Psychiatrist and an accredited training director and supervisor in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and in Schema Therapy at the Maudsley Hospital in London. He has a special expertise in treating anxiety such as stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, health anxiety, social phobia and others. He also treats complex trauma, and depression by combining evidence-based psychotherapies, mainly CBT and schema therapy, with medication if required.

Dr Ruths is an active member of our Psychiatric Psychotherapy Clinical Interest Group. Sloane Court Clinic prides itself in having several clinicians that work holistically with clients by combining psychiatric and pharmacological knowledge with an extensive experience and practice in a range of psychotherapies. He is available to attend to patients that value seeing a psychiatrist for psychotherapy, and that wish to benefit from having psychological and medical treatment in one expert hand.

Dr Ruths has been passionate about ‘prescribing’ non-pharmacological scientifically-proven interventions like Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Groups (MBCT) for patients with depression and anxiety problems. MBCT is recommended by the National Institute for Care and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as a powerful treatment for depression and anxiety.

Since 2014, he has been co-leading the Maudsley Schema Therapy Service. Additionally, he has been a Researcher for the International Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial of Group Schema Therapy for Borderline disorder (Chief Investigator: Prof. Arntz, Amsterdam) for the UK sites. The resulting work was published in JAMA Psychiatry in March 2022 and can be found here.

Dr Ruths teaches Cognitive Behavioural Therapy & MBCT on MSc Courses in London at the IoPPN. He has also presented or published in the areas of schema therapy, MBCT, anxiety and depression.

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