Ruby Schiff

LMFT

Staff Therapist

Ruby Schiff is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who is passionate about providing therapy to people across the lifespan, from young children to adults and families. Ruby works with a variety of mental health issues, including personality disorders, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, trauma, sexuality, grief, life transitions, and body image issues.

Ruby earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and Gender Studies from Kenyon College in Ohio and holds a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. While at USC, she concentrated on treating low-income young adults at Pelican Cove Counseling Center, a psychodynamic training center in Alhambra, California.  After graduation, she worked in community mental health at The Village Family Services in North Hollywood, California.  While employed there, she provided therapy intake assessments, ran groups for underserved youth and families in the community, and coordinated with treatment teams to provide wraparound care for acute client cases.

Ruby was comprehensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy by Dr. Shari Manning at Treatment Implementation Collaborative.  Dr. Manning is one of the nation’s leading DBT experts and SoCal DBT’s expert consultant.  Ruby is completing her DBT mentorship and prelicensure hours under the supervision of Dr. Suzanne Wallach at SoCal DBT, where she is also receiving comprehensive training as a DBT skills group leader, primary therapist, and team member within the SoCal DBT program.  At SoCal DBT, Ruby sees children ages 4 to 12, teens, adults, parents, partners, and families.

Ruby has also completed Dr. Melanie Harned’s Prolonged Exposure for DBT, which is a specific model of Prolonged Exposure adapted to DBT to treat PTSD among high-risk and multi-problem clients who are receiving DBT. The DBT PE protocol is based on Prolonged Exposure therapy and was adapted to fit the needs of this complex client population. DBT with the DBT PE protocol is a comprehensive treatment designed to help these tremendously suffering individuals recover from trauma and build lives they experience as worth living.  Ruby has also completed DBT for Parents, Couples, and Families taught by Dr. Alan Fruzzetti of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  She has received onsite training from Dr. Wallach in DBT for Children and plans to be formally trained in 2026.

Ruby’s approach to non-DBT cases is integrative, and she draws from a multitude of therapeutic modalities to best serve the individual needs of her clients.   She sees ages 6 through adults, as well as families, and each session is uniquely tailored to the individual or family. She uses a socioculturally attuned lens to address not only the client but also their cultural context. Through creating a warm environment and a safe space to foster an authentic therapeutic alliance together, Ruby believes that therapy can provide a warm environment for clients to begin to heal their inner worlds and discover their emotional needs.

Ruby is available for sessions primarily in our Beverly Hills location and in Calabasas on Thursdays.