About Ruth
Ruth Gordon, LCSW, helps people who are facing relationship pain, grief, anxiety, or difficult life changes. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps. Ruth draws on four decades of experience to listen, ask useful questions, and offer steady support.
Many clients come with problems around intimacy, trust, or family tension. Others seek help for depression, stress, body image or eating concerns, and phobias. Ruth works to understand each person's story and strengths before suggesting a path forward.
Background and approach
Her sessions often center on clear, doable strategies. She uses techniques that help people notice thought patterns, practice new ways of relating, and make values-based choices. Conversations are aimed at small, manageable shifts rather than big, sudden changes.
Ruth also addresses longer-term issues such as aging, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and cultural or identity questions. She brings patience to topics like forgiveness, guilt, infidelity, and family-of-origin wounds. The goal is to help people build more satisfying relationships with themselves and others.
Ruth is licensed in Florida as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She offers work that is collaborative and respectful, helping clients set realistic goals and track progress. Those interested in starting therapy will find a direct, experienced clinician who values honest conversation and steady encouragement.
Online approaches that focus on values and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values, even when anxiety or fear is present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and behaviors and offers concrete exercises to reduce symptoms like worry or avoidance. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions and how people connect in relationships, helping to improve communication and closeness.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Ruth will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then suggest methods that fit. She tailors sessions so techniques line up with what someone wants to change or feel differently about.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief updates, homework check-ins, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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