Ruth

Dr Ruth Manasseh

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

“I specialise in treating complex trauma, anxiety, stress, depression, panic attacks, personality, emotional & behavioural difficulties.”

About Me

I offer a space to deeply explore complex trauma, persistent anxiety, and overwhelming stress. We can work together, making sense of the roots of depression, panic attacks, or challenging emotional patterns. My approach helps you understand underlying difficulties, fostering lasting change beyond immediate symptoms. If you seek to unravel these experiences and build greater emotional resilience, we can find a way forward.

Approach

Treatment focuses on tracing the links between overwhelming feelings and everyday patterns, using thoughtful, paced conversation to make sense of panic, persistent anxiety and low mood. I work with people in Singapore and online, in English or Hebrew, creating a contained space where we notice feelings, memories and relationship dynamics as they arise. Sessions are collaborative and exploratory, with attention to what shifts between meetings and gentle invitations to reflect outside the room. This way often suits adolescents, adults, couples and families seeking deeper understanding and durable change.
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Basic Information

In-person & Online

Services

Services Offered:

  • Psychotherapy

    In-depth therapeutic work that explores patterns in thoughts, emotions, and relationships to produce lasting psychological change.

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  • Psychodynamic Therapy

    A therapy that explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns shape current feelings, relationships, and behaviour.

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Works With:

  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Couples
  • Families

Area of Expertise

Scope of Practice:

  • Abuse

    Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.

  • Adolescent Therapy

    Therapy designed for teenagers, using age-appropriate methods to address issues like anxiety, identity, peer pressure, and family conflict.

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  • Anxiety

    Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.

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  • Behaviour or Conduct Issues

    Persistent patterns of defiant, aggressive, or rule-breaking behaviour in children or adolescents that significantly disrupt home, school, or social life.

  • Mood Disorder

    A category of mental health conditions, including depression and bipolar disorder, in which a person's emotional state is significantly and persistently disrupted.

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  • Family Issues

    Difficulties within the family system, including conflict, communication breakdown, blended family tensions, or intergenerational patterns, that affect individual and collective well-being.

  • Personal Development

    The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.

  • Personality Difficulties

    Long-standing patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating to others that cause persistent distress or problems in relationships and daily life.

  • Trauma

    The lasting psychological impact of deeply distressing events, such as violence, abuse, accidents, or disasters, that overwhelm a person's ability to cope.

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Professional Title:

  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

    A psychotherapist who integrates psychoanalytic understanding into therapy, exploring unconscious dynamics and relational patterns.

Credentials

Registrations

British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

Sinagpore Association of Councellors (SAC)

SAC Registered Councellor

Singapore Psychological Society

Full Member

Qualifications

Clinical Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

University of Essex

Year: 2014

Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Lincoln Clinic and Center for Psychotherapy

Year: 2003

Certificate in Working with Couples

Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust

Year: 2010

Certificate in Mentalization Based Psychotherapy (MBT) for patients with BPD diagnosis

Anna Freud Ctr Professor Peter Fonagy and Professor Anthony W. Bateman

Year: 2009

Certificate in Experiential Dynamic Therapy with Fragile Patients

Magdalene College Oxford

Year: 2008

Service Areas

Private Practice

In-person & Online

Singapore, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore, Singapore