About Gordon
Gordon Leith is a licensed professional counselor who approaches therapy with respect for each person's story. He uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and life transitions. Gordon works with adults in one-to-one sessions and brings 34 years of experience to his practice.
He earned a Master of Arts in Counseling with dual specializations in community mental health and substance abuse treatment. Over the years he has worked in independent practice, inpatient and outpatient treatment settings, and on assignments with federal safety agencies.
Background and approach
Gordon also has long experience using hypnosis in individual work. In sessions he starts by listening and learning what matters most to the client. He emphasizes collaboration and helps people set clear goals.
He draws on client-centered techniques to build trust and on cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful patterns of thought and behavior. Gordon also uses emotionally focused and existential approaches when a deeper look at relationships, meaning, or values is helpful. He supports work on grief, trauma, intimacy concerns, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving stress.
He also addresses career challenges and motivation issues. All sessions are conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Scheduling follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Gordon uses client-centered work that starts with listening and understanding each person's priorities. This approach focuses on building a respectful relationship and helping clients identify strengths they can use to move forward.He also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood. CBT is practical and often helps with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and coping with life changes by teaching concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gordon will discuss options and tailor sessions based on a client's goals, preferences, and what comes up in early meetings. He aims to put clients in charge of decisions about which methods to use.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short, frequent exchanges and can fit into busy days. These options make therapy more accessible for different schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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