About Ruby
Ruby Coopersmith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 13 years of experience. She focuses on concerns such as anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, grief, and trauma. Ruby aims to help people feel steadier and more able to handle everyday challenges.
Her approach is warm and practical. She listens first and helps people set clear, manageable goals. She teaches skills like assertive communication, boundary setting, and coping strategies to use outside sessions.
Background and approach
Ruby blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused techniques when those fit the person's needs. She pays attention to how family, culture, and life events shape patterns of thinking and behavior. She also uses ideas from dialectical behavior therapy and existential therapy when relevant to the work.
In sessions she helps identify core beliefs, break unhelpful patterns, and build concrete plans for change. That can include working on sleep, eating, substance use, or managing anger and attention challenges. She also supports people dealing with body image, codependency, attachment concerns, or career and parenting stress.
Ruby creates a respectful, calm environment where clients can be honest about where they are. She emphasizes building trust and practical skills over time. If someone is ready to start, she guides them through setting goals and finding steps that fit their life.
How Ruby’s approaches work in online therapy
Ruby commonly draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and building trust so people can speak openly about what matters. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and then practices new, more useful ways of thinking and acting.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed. DBT skills are practical tools for managing intense feelings, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behavior. Ruby treats the choice of approach as a collaboration and will work with each person to find what fits their goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is low, and messaging or live chat work for brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These formats help people fit sessions into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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